Waxworks (1924)

Original title

Das Wachsfigurenkabinett

Directed by

Leo Birinski, Paul Leni

Genre

fantasy film, horror film, silent film, anthology film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 71 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A writer is hired by a wax museum owner to make up wild stories about the wax figures. He writes tales about a caliph, a tsar, and a serial killer. Each story has its own strange and eerie mood.

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What happens

Waxworks (German: Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) is a 1924 German silent anthology film directed by Paul Leni. Its stories are linked by a plot thread about a writer (William Dieterle) who accepts a job from a waxworks proprietor to write a series of stories about the exhibits of Caliph of Baghdad (Emil Jannings), Ivan the Terrible (Conrad Veidt) and Jack the Ripper (Werner Krauss) in order to boost business. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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