Warning Shadows
About Warning Shadows
A count gives a dinner. His wife and four suitors sit down in a nineteenth-century German manor. A traveling shadow-player shows them what the night will become if the count's jealousy and the men's advances go on, including a duel with the man he thinks is his rival. Violence is avoided and the marriage holds. The film does not say whether the party happened or the magician invented it.
Cast & crew
More about Warning Shadows
Arthur Robison directed and Fritz Arno Wagner photographed the German release of 1923, which Wikipedia times at 85 minutes. Alexander Granach plays the shadow-player, Fritz Kortner the count, Ruth Weyher his wife, and Gustav von Wangenheim the lover. The German title is Schatten.
Themes
Look
Fritz Arno Wagner shot the dinner and the shadow play that warns the guests.
Preservation
A print is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- Fritz Rasp plays a servant. Rudolf Klein-Rogge is in the cast.
- Eugen Rex, Max Gülstorff, and Ferdinand von Alten play three of the suitors.
- The count's challenge is part of the vision, not a duel the film then stages in fact.
- The Internet Archive id keeps the German subtitle Eine nächtliche Halluzination.
Scenes
- The shadow-player casts the night's possible crimes on the wall.
- The count faces the man he takes for his rival.
- Husband and wife are together when the vision ends.
Also available
- Internet Archive (warningShadowsschatten-EineNchtlicheHalluzination1923)
