Plots(1)
A mysterious traveler and illusionist who performs shadow puppetry arrives to provide some entertainment at an otherwise routine dinner party. The host of the party is already mad with jealousy over the presence of his wife's four suitors, but when the puppet show begins, passions overtake reason and reality is not what it appears to be. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Fritz Kortner
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Hands of Orlac (1924)
Warning Shadows (1923)
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
Ruth Weyher
German Empire
Best movies:
Secrets of a Soul (1926)
Warning Shadows (1923)
Gustav von Wangenheim
German Empire
Best movies:
Nosferatu (1922)
Woman in the Moon (1929)
Warning Shadows (1923)
Alexander Granach
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Nosferatu (1922)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Comradeship (1931)
Max Gülstorff
German Empire
Best movies:
The Punch Bowl (1944)
Warning Shadows (1923)
Das verliebte Hotel (1933)
Fritz Rasp
German Empire
Best movies:
Metropolis (1927)
Woman in the Moon (1929)
Emil and the Detectives (1931)
Karl Platen
German Empire
Best movies:
M (1931)
Destiny (1921)
The Young Count (1935)
Eugen Rex
German Empire
Best movies:
Warning Shadows (1923)
The Burning Soil (1922)
The Congress Dances (1931)
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
German Empire
Best movies:
Metropolis (1927)
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Ferdinand von Alten
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Warning Shadows (1923)
The Man Who Cheated Life (1926)
Anna Boleyn (1920)