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Typhoon (1934)

Typhoon poster
Original title
Polizeiakte 909
Directed by
Robert Wiene
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 21m
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A drama about a spy whose cover is threatened when an old romance resurfaces. The situation forces him into a dangerous moral conflict.

tragicintensebroodingformalrestraineddatedatmosphericmelodramatic

What happens

Typhoon (German: Taifun) is a 1933 German drama film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Liane Haid, Viktor de Kowa and Valéry Inkijinoff. It was based on the 1911 play Typhoon by the Hungarian writer Melchior Lengyel. It was the last German film made by Wiene, who had been a leading director of German silent cinema. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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