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Homunculus (1916)

Homunculus poster
Directed by
Otto Rippert
Genre
silent film
Country
Germany
Runtime
3h 16m
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A scientist creates a synthetic human being. The artificial man struggles with his existence and the reactions of those around him.

silentold-fashionedsuspensefuldramaticatmosphericslow-burnseriousspeculative

What happens

Homunculus is a 1916 German silent science fiction serial film directed by Otto Rippert and written by Robert Reinert. Other sources list Robert Neuss as a co-writer. Fritz Lang was one of Rippert's assistants during filming. It was originally produced by Deutsche Bioscop GmbH. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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