Life Is a Dream (1917)

Original title

Das Leben ein Traum

Directed by

Robert Wiene

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

Germany

Runtime

50 min

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.

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How it feels

A young aristocrat marries a man who turns out to be abusive. After he dies, her sanity unravels until a doctor tries a radical treatment that makes her think the trauma was just a nightmare.

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What happens

Life Is a Dream (German: Das Leben ein Traum) is a 1917 German silent drama film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Emil Jannings, Bruno Decarli and Maria Fein. A young aristocrat meets a man and marries him, but soon discovers he is a monster. After his death she grows increasingly mad, until a revolutionary new cure is attempted which makes her believe that the whole episode was simply a dream. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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