fiction.wikisort.org - MovieThe Hunchback and the Dancer (German: Der Bucklige und die Tänzerin) is a 1920 silent German horror film directed by F. W. Murnau and photographed by Karl Freund.[1] This is now considered to be a lost film.[2] The film was written by Carl Mayer, who also wrote The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920).[3] Karl Freund later emigrated to Hollywood where he directed such classic horror films as The Mummy (1932) and Mad Love (1935).[4] It premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin.
1920 film
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Directed by | F. W. Murnau |
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Written by | Carl Mayer |
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Cinematography | Karl Freund |
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Distributed by | Helios Film |
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Running time | 50 minutes |
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Country | Weimar Republic |
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Languages | Silent German intertitles |
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Plot
A repulsive hunchback named James Wilton changes his relationship with women when he discovers a diamond mine in Java. A young woman named Gina, on the rebound from an earlier relationship, begins dating him. Later when she decides to break up with him and go back to her former lover, the hunchback manages to taint her with a poisonous substance that will kill anyone who kisses her. After two of her paramours die before her eyes, she finally catches on that he had contaminated her, and she decides to get revenge by luring the hunchback into kissing her himself.
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See also
References
- Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 223.ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
- "Progressive Silent Film List: The Hunchback and the Dancer". Silent Era. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
- Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 224.ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
- Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 223.ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
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- Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation
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На других языках
[de] Der Bucklige und die Tänzerin
Der Bucklige und die Tänzerin (Arbeitstitel: Der grüne Kuss) ist ein deutsches Stummfilm-Drama von Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau aus dem Jahr 1920. Der Film handelt von einem Buckligen, der sich in eine schöne Tänzerin verliebt, die allerdings nichts von ihm wissen will. In Liebeskummer verabreicht er ihr ein geheimnisvolles Elixier, das jeden tötet, der sie küsst. Nachdem ihr Verlobter und ihr Liebhaber sterben mussten, kann auch er der Versuchung nicht widerstehen und stirbt, da sie ihm das Gegengift entreißt.
- [en] The Hunchback and the Dancer
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