The Riddle of the Sphinx (1921)

Original title

Das Rätsel der Sphinx

Directed by

Adolf Gärtner

Genre

silent film, adventure film

Country

Germany

Rating

7.0 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 silent adventure film from 1920s Germany. It follows characters involved with a mysterious sphinx.

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What happens

The Riddle of the Sphinx (German: Das Rätsel der Sphinx) is a 1921 German silent adventure film directed by Adolf Gärtner and starring Ellen Richter, Erich Kaiser-Titz and Karl Günther. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Dreier. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.