An ambitious wife spends all of her husband's hard-earned money and then commits suicide out of remorse.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

First feature film produced by the German pioneer Oskar Messter

A nude couple pose in an art studio on a square rug, while the camera does a circular traveling around them; the woman has her right knee on the...

Klara and her father have been alone since her mother died. Her close friend Hans leaves for the military, and on returning as a fine young man,...

Alexander Girardi sings the cabbage song

A love doctor successfully produces men on order for needy women, until his system for delivering them – through the mail as puppets in canisters -...

a silent movie by Rober Wiene

In the image of Salomé, the excluded other - nature, sexuality, the feminine - returns as an attraction and a threat. In a mixture of striptease and...

A silent musical number.

Sigmund Liban sings forty second from the prologue to PAGLIACCI in this early sound film.

Only 3 minutes of this Oskar Messter short film survive.