Movies: Ernst Ludwig

Part of the artificial-creature series encompassing Der Golem (1914 and 1920), Alraune (1918, 1928, 1930) and Metropolis (1926), 'Homunculus' was the most popular serial in Germany during World War I even influencing the dress of fashionable Berlin. ...

This movie, directed by Richard Oswald, is based on the operetta "Les contes de Hoffmann" by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), which is a genial musical potpourri from various short stories and novels by the Prussian writer, composer, painter, lawyer an...

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A group of scientists, led by a Professor Ortmann, produce a living human child using scientific processes - a "homunculus." This creature is human in every way, except that he cannot experience love....

Every Friday the 13th, a member of the Eulenstein family dies. The son of the most recent victim hires a detective to investigate....

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A variation of the famous Oscar Wilde tale in which Dorian Gray's soul is manifested in a painting instead of his own body....

A young unemployed man gets a job as a private secretary by chance. A good salary, a first-class apartment - but things are not going right in his new residence. Notes warn him, a beautiful woman appears in the mirror, valuable documents disappear fr...

A painter with syphilis infects his brother's wife and the child born of their affair....

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Philanthropist attempts to awaken the good side in criminals....