Waxworks
by Leo Birinsky, Paul Leni
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Actor: Conrad Veidt, Emil Jannings, Olga Belajeff, Werner Krauss, William DieterleDirector: Leo Birinsky, Paul Leni
Cinematographer: Helmar Lerski
Producer: Leo Birinsky
Writer: Paul Leni
Producer: Alexander Kwartiroff
Writer: Hans Brennert
Writer: Henrik Galeen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Japanese (Dubbed)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Silent
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-09-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kino Video
Movie Reviews of Waxworks
Movie Review: Good German Expressionism!
Summary: 4 Stars
A man answers an ad for a carnival. He is to tell the story of 3 infamous people in history who will be presented in wax in the waxworks. First is a tale of Horoun Al Rashid, from Ancient Baghdad, then Jack the Ripper and Ivan The Terrible. Stories nightmares are made of!
Summary of Waxworks
An idealistic poet is hired to write stories about the chamber of horrors 3 most notorious figures: jack the ripper ivan the terrible & haroun al-raschid. But as the uncanny tales flow from the poets pen he finds himself enveloped in the nightmare worlds of his own creation. Studio: Kino International Release Date: 10/05/2004 Starring: Emil Jannings Conrad Veidt Run time: 83 minutes Director: Paul LeniLesser-known among silent German classics, Waxworks is a carnival of a movie inviting you to visit three distinct freak shows and sample the thrills and peculiarities each has to offer. A young poet (Wilhelm Dieterle, who became Hollywood director William Dieterle) is hired to pen "startling tales" about three figures on display in the Wachsfigurenkabinett. Somehow he and his boss's daughter (Olga Belajeff) win plum roles in each fantasia he concocts. The Arabian Nights episode, featuring Emil Jannings hamming it up as Caliph Haroun al-Raschid, boasts demented architecture and a blend of comedy and surrealism that inspired Douglas Fairbanks's Thief of Bagdad. Conrad Veidt, making a memorably mad Russian icon of Ivan the Terrible, towers amid episode 2's fiercely angular compositions. Then, still-unnerving double-exposure cinematography is used to bring "Spring Heel Jack" (Werner Krauss's version of Jack the Ripper) out of the realm of fantasy and menacingly into the real-world framing story. Get your ticket right here. --Richard T. Jameson
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