The Mysterious Mirror (1928)
- Original title
- Der geheimnisvolle Spiegel
- Directed by
- Richard Teschner, Carl Hoffmann, Robert Reinert
- Genre
- fantasy film, silent film
- Country
- Germany
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A magic mirror shows people visions of their future. A woman and two men become entangled in what they see.
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What happens
The Mysterious Mirror (German: Der geheimnisvolle Spiegel), aka The Mystic Mirror is a 1928 German silent fantasy film directed by Carl Hoffmann and Richard Teschner, and starring Fee Malten, Fritz Rasp and Rina De Liguoro. The film was about a magic mirror which allowed the person looking into it to see his or her future, a theme that appeared similarly in the 1945 British horror film Dead of Night. The magazine Film und Volk, which was invariably hostile to UFA releases, described it as "about the limit of what an audience could be expected to tolerate in the way of stale Gothic Romance and unlikely psychology". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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