Waxworks ( Das Wachsfigurenkabinett )

Waxworks (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Das Wachsfigurenkabinett
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
80 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1924 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Leo Birinsky
Paul Leni

Written By:
Henrik Galeen

Actors:
Emil Jannings ..... Harun al Raschid
Conrad Veidt ..... Ivan the Terrible
Werner Krauss ..... Jack the Ripper / Spring-Heeled Jack
William Dieterle ..... The Poet / Assad the Baker / A Russian Prince
Olga Belajeff ..... Eva-Maimune-Eine Bojarin
Paul Biensfeldt ..... Grand Vizier
John Gottowt ..... Inhaber der Panoptikums
Georg John ..... Prisoner
Ernst Legal ..... Poison-Maker of the Czar

Synopsis:

The owner of a Waxmuseum needs for three of his models stories to be told to the audience. For that reason he has hired a writer, who after one look at the owner's pretty daughter, starts writing stories featuring the models, the daughter and himself. In the first, he is a baker, married to the girl, who is a little bit too much flirting with the customers, among them the wezir of sultan Harun Al-Rashid, who has just ordered his execution because the smell from the bakery is drifting to his palace, yet Harun Al-Rashid wants to meet the beautiful girl himself, while an angry baker is trying to get the Sultan's whishing ring to proof he's not a weakling... The second story is about Tzar Ivan the Terrible who likes watching people die together with his court-chemist. When he orders the execution of the chemist, the chemist thinks of a nice revanche, but till the revanche works, a nobleman is murdered, his daughter kidnapped by Ivan and her groom tortured. While writing the third story about Jack the Ripper, he falls asleep and dreams he and the girl are pursued by that serial killer.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 10 May, 2020.