Confusing ,but a good piece of German silent expressionism of the Wiemar period.The plot is .I think is that a baron puts on a dinner party teasing four men ,as their guest,with his wife.Then starts to get jealous and ends up causing her to have a heart attack,but it ends up as a dream. Fritz Kortners plays the count.Ruth Weyher plays the countess,Frits Rasp plays a servant and has his hear combed the same way he would have it in the talking period, parted in the middle all the way down behind his head, with his side curled,how strange.Both Kortner and Rasp appeared in the 1931 German talking version of Brother Karamozov.The four guest,Rex Eugene,Max Gulstorf,Ferdinand Von Alten,Gutav Von Wangenheim.Alexander Granach plays the s shadow player. Ruth Weyher Teases the four guest.Granach puts on an early form of t.v.,shadow plays with stencil puppets.Gustav Flrits with her in her room,but she doesn't go all the way.Frtiz getting Jelouse has her tied down,on the dinner table,a form of bondage, and manipulates the guest to stab her to death,but only the stab at the shadow. They all end up kicking fritz out of the widow and he disappears.But it turns out to be a dream caused by the shadow master,Excellent silent 11/01/12
Review of Warning Shadows
