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  1. Tartuffe (2005)

    Director
    Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
    Subject
    Drama; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 64 minutes), £19.99

    F. W. Murnau made this film adaptation of Molière’s satire for UFA early in 1925 and it was released the following year, shortly followed by Faust. By presenting the play as a film-within-a-film, Murnau...

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  2. Secrets of a Soul (1925 Film)

    aka: Geheimnisse Einer Seele

    Director
    Georg Wilhelm Pabst
    Subject
    German studies; Psychiatry
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Silent feature film exploring aspects of psychoanalysis. Suppressed childhood experiences urge a chemist to stab his wife to death. A doctor unlocks the ‘secrets of his soul’, reawakening suppressed...

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  3. Sommernachtstraum, Ein (1925 Film)

    aka: Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Wood Love Heiteres Fastnachtsspeil, Ein

    Director
    Hans Neumann
    Producer
    Hans Neumann
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature film which appears to have combined great charm and ribaldry. Ball, summarising contemporary reviews, writes: ‘Theseus was shown at the telephone, Amazons and Athenians moved into battle to the...

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  4. Kaufmann von Venedig, Der (1923 Film)

    aka: Shylock, Der Jude von Venedig Jew of Mestri, The

    Director
    Peter Paul Felner
    Producer
    Peter Paul Felner
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature film in theory based on Shakespeare’s own sources for The Merchant of Venice but in practice partly Shakespeare and partly director Felner’s invention. Werner Krauss is Shylock.

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  5. Alte Gesetz, Das (1923 Film)

    aka: Baruch Ancient Law, The

    Director
    Ewald André Dupont

    Feature film. In nineteenth-century Austria, a young Jew leaves the ghetto to become an actor. He eventually becomes famous and is reunited with his disapproving Rabbi father. Ernst Deutsch, as the Jew...

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  6. Othello (1922) (1922 Film)

    aka: Moor, The

    Director
    Dimitri Buchowetzki
    Producer
    Paul Blumenthal
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A version of the play, based on both Cinthio’s original tale and Shakespeare’s play, with echoes of Reinhardt and Expressionism. Emil Jannings is Othello.

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  7. Cabinet des Dr Caligari, Das (1919 Video)

    Director
    Robert Wiene
    Producer
    Erich Pommer
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    A recently restored and tinted full-length version of the silent film set in the Middle Ages, telling the story of a murderous sleepwalker who prowls the streets late at night in search of victims and is...

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