Warning Shadows

“Arthur Robison's Expressionist Thriller”

6.5

1923

1h 30m

ThrillerFantasyDramaHorror

During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife. Or was it a vision?

Key Crew

Director

Arthur Robison

Producers

Willy Seibold

Enrico Dieckmann

Writers

Arthur Robison

Rudolf Schneider

Cinematography

Fritz Arno Wagner

Cast (12)

Alexander Granach

Shadowplayer

Fritz Kortner

The Count

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Warning Shadows

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Director

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Cinematography

Cast (12)

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Warning Shadows

Key Crew

Director

Producers

Writers

Cinematography

Cast (12)

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