The Nights of Cornelis Brouwer (1921)

Directed by

William Wauer

Country

Germany

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A quiet, proper man transforms into a wild and chaotic version of himself when he goes out at night. The story follows his struggles between these two different selves.

nocturnaldual-personalitysuspensefulmoodypsychologicalshadowyintense

What happens

The Nights of Cornelis Brouwer (German: Die Nächte des Cornelis Brouwer) is a 1921 German silent thriller film directed by Reinhard Bruck and William Wauer and starring Albert Bassermann, Colette Corder and Rudolf Klein-Rogge.The plot, about a respectable citizen who is taken over by a wild other self during nights on the town, is similar to that of Der Andere. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert A. Dietrich. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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