Night Figures (1920)

Movie
Original title	Night figures
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1920
length	107 minutes
Rod
Director	Richard Oswald
script	Richard Oswald
production	Richard Oswald
camera	Carl Hoffmann
occupation
Paul Wegener : Thomas Related, multi-billionaire Reinhold Schünzel : Secretary Erna Morena : Elisabeth, reference daughter Erik Charell : Arnold, reference son, "monkey" Conrad Veidt : Clown Anita Berber : dancer Paul Bildt : Inventor Theodor Loos Willy Allen

Nachtgestalten is a German horror film from 1920 based on the fantastic novel Eleagabal Kuperus by Karl Hans Strobl .

action

The richest man in the world, Thomas Referenz, is a lonely, domineering and cruel cripple who has difficulty moving on crutches. He feels a fanatical love for his son, whom he keeps in a cage like a monkey that climbs trees and feeds on nuts. His servants are muscled and disfigured dwarfs. His secretary is only trying to get his hands on assets. A dancer leaves him. Since makes him an unemployed inventor an offer: Reference gives him his nymphomaniac daughter in marriage, in turn, this gets an invention of air the oxygen escapes. Reference wants to blackmail the whole world and usurp world domination . After the wedding, however, his new son-in-law tells him coldly that he lied and consequently had not invented anything.

background

The buildings were created by Hans Dreier . The film had a length of six acts at 2,192 meters, which corresponds to about 107 minutes. The post-censorship imposed a youth ban on him on July 16, 1920 (No. 101). The first performance was on January 9, 1920 in Berlin in the Richard-Oswald-Lichtspiele.

Availability

The film seems to have been preserved.

Web links

• Night creatures at The German Early Cinema Database
• Night creatures at filmportal.de
• Nachtgestalten in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Film length calculator , frame rate : 18
2. ↑ Film rental at Filmportal.de