Unheimliche Geschichten (1919)

Directed by

Richard Oswald

Genre

fantasy film, horror film, silent film, anthology film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 41m

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1919 German silent film presents five separate stories of strange and supernatural events. One segment follows a haunted man, another a cursed hand, and one adapts Edgar Allan Poe's tale of a black cat. The anthology mixes horror with dark fantasy.

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What happens

Unheimliche Geschichten (lit. Uncanny Stories), also known as Grausige Nächte (lit. Nights of Terror) or Eerie Tales, is a 1919 German silent anthology film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Conrad Veidt, Reinhold Schünzel, and Anita Berber. The film is divided into five segments: "The Apparition" (based on a story by Anselm Heine), "The Hand" (based on a story by Robert Liebmann), "The Black Cat" (based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe), "The Suicide Club" (based on the short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson) and "Der Spuk" ("The Spectre", an original work by Oswald). Unheimliche Geschichten is also known under the titles Weird Tales, Five Sinister Stories, or Tales of the Uncanny. The original negative of the film is considered lost, though a restoration sourced from a nitrate print by the Cinémathèque française has been released. A remake by the same name, also directed by Oswald, was released in 1932. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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