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Warning shadows : a nocturnal hallucination /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: K465 | Kino on VideoLanguage: No linguistic content Series: German expressionism collection | German silentsPublication details: [United States] : Kino on Video, ©2006.Description: 1 videodisc (85 min.) : si., color tinted ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Other title:
  • Nächtliche Halluzination
Uniform titles:
  • Schatten (Motion picture). English.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.4372 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.75 .S37 2006
NLM classification:
  • FG GE 1923 S338
Production credits:
  • Photography, Fritz Arno Wagner ; edited by Rudolf Schneider and Arthur Robison ; design, Albin Grau ; new music composed and performed by Donald Sosin.
Cast: Fritz Kortner, Ruth Weyher, Gustav von Wangenheim, Eugen Rex, Max Gülstorff, Ferdinand von Alten, Fritz Rasp, Carl Platen, Lilli Herder, Alexander Granach.Summary: Expressionist film in which a count is jealous of the attentions his wife pays to "the lover" and various other suitors. The situation comes to a head when a showman/mesmerist puts on a "shadow play" for them all, in which their emotion and passions are mirrored.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-01959 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050181330

This restored edition contains no intertitles, in keeping with the original German version of the film, which premiered in October, 1923 under title: Schatten : eine nächtliche Halluzination.

Film restoration and preservation by L'immagine Ritrovata.

"This version of Warning Shadows (Schatten) is based on a comparison of all existing copies, two main sources in particular: An original print, tinted and with French intertitles, from the Cinémathèque Française, and a dupe negative of an American theatrical version from the Museum of Modern Art."

DVD; region 1, NTSC ; full screen (1:33:1) presentation.

Silent film with orchestral soundtrack, no intertitles (except for beginning credits).

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