Fool and death
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Fool and death |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1920 |
| length | 73 to 85 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rudolf Stiassny |
| script | Rudolf Stiassny based on a literary model by Siegfried Geyer |
| production | Filmag, Vienna |
| camera | Max Nekut |
| occupation | |
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Fool and Death is an Austrian silent film from 1920.
action
The sculptor Peter Starling shot himself in the museum. When the museum director examines the corpse, he finds a diary from whose entries he can infer the reason for the suicide: Starling once came across a mummy and a papyrus scroll while on a trip to Egypt and left both artefacts to the museum on his return. From the papyrus roll with the cuneiform writing , Starling could see that the mummy, once a king's daughter, would one day wake up again and then live as long as the mummy liked it. Starling also watched the transformation from mummy to king's daughter and was soon under the spell of the beautiful "young" woman who completely confused his senses. Eventually the reawakened was kidnapped by a certain Count Galleen. Starling followed them back to the museum, shot the mummy, and then killed himself.
Production notes
Fool and Death was made in the spring of 1920. The film premiered on June 18, 1920. The five-act film was 1500 to 1738 meters long. In Germany you could see Narr und Tod from July 1920 in Berlin's Passage Theater Unter den Linden.
criticism
Paimann's film lists at the time summed up: "The material, photos and scenery are very good, the game is excellent."
Web links
- Fool and Death at The German Early Cinema Database
- Fool and Death at filmportal.de
- Fool and death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Narr und Tod ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Paimann's film lists
