Underplayed Gems

Die Botschaft des Jean Battista (1917)

Die Botschaft des Jean Battista poster
Genre
crime film
Country
German Empire, Germany
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

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.

More films like this

How it feels

A silent crime drama from 1917. It is part of a detective series about Joe Jenkins. The story involves a spoon from cell number 17.

silentmysteriousstagedmelodramaticold-fashionedplot-drivendetectivestiff

What happens

Die Botschaft des Jean Battista (auch: Der Löffel der Zelle Nr. 17 / Löffel Nummer siebzehn) ist der Titel eines stummen Kriminaldramas, das Siegfried Philippi 1917 nach einem Manuskript von Paul Rosenhayn für die Berliner Atlantic Film Aarhus inszeniert hat. Es war Teil der Joe Jenkins-Detektivserie und auch unter dem Titel “Der Löffel der Zelle Nr. 17” bzw. “Löffel Nummer siebzehn” im Verleih. Den Detektiv spielte der amerikanische Opernsänger Leon Rains. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? You can browse by genre, country and year, or take this one into the 3D catalogue and ask the Catbot for something closer.