Underplayed Gems

Figures of the Night (1920)

Figures of the Night poster
Original title
Nachtgestalten
Directed by
Richard Oswald
Genre
drama film, horror film, silent film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 46m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A man becomes entangled with a mysterious and sinister figure in a German city. The story draws on horror themes and supernatural elements.

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What happens

Figures of the Night (German: Nachtgestalten) is a 1920 German silent horror film written, directed and produced by Richard Oswald and starring Paul Wegener, Conrad Veidt, Reinhold Schünzel and Erna Morena. It is based on the novel Eleagabal Kuperus by Karl Hans Strobl. Strobl was the editor of a German horror fiction magazine called Der Orchideengarten, which was said to have been influenced by the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Strobl was an antisemitic and later willingly joined the Nazi Party, which may explain why he has become an obscure literary figure today. The film's art direction was by Hans Dreier, and Carl Hoffmann handled the cinematography. Hoffmann went on to collaborate with such noted German directors as Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau. It was filmed at the Babelsberg Studio in Berlin. No print of the film is known to survived, making it a lost film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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