Movie: Warning Shadows

Top 10 Billed Cast

Alexander Granach
Alexander Granach

Shadowplayer

Fritz Kortner
Fritz Kortner

The Count

Ruth Weyher
Ruth Weyher

His Wife

Gustav von Wangenheim
Gustav von Wangenheim

Her Lover

Eugen Rex
Eugen Rex

A Servant

Lilli Herder
Lilli Herder

The Maid

Fritz Rasp
Fritz Rasp

Diener

Karl Platen
Karl Platen

2. Diener

Max Gülstorff
Max Gülstorff

2. Kavalier

Ferdinand von Alten
Ferdinand von Alten

3. Kavalier

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    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?

  • Release Date

    1923-10-16

  • Average

    6.5

  • Rating:

    3.3 starts
  • Tagline

    Arthur Robison's Expressionist Thriller

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