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Shattered Scherben
Title
Shattered [videorecording] = Scherben.
Published
Burbank, Calif. : Hollywood's Attic, c1996.
Physical Description
1 videocassette (ca. 45 min.) : si., b&w ; 1/2 in.
Notes
Videocassette release of the motion picture made in Germany in 1921.
Script by Lupu Pick, Carl Mayer; F. Weinmann, camera.
Silent film with added sound track of organ music scored by David Knudtson.
Video title frames in English; original title frames, credits, and dialogue titles in German.
Summary
A railroad track-walker kills his daughter's seducer, a railway inspector, after her mother has already fled into the snow in shock and died of exposure, when the man refuses to have anything to do with the daughter. An example of Kammerspiel, or chamber-play, of naturalistic expressionism, and of psychological drama.
Variant and related titles
Scherben
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
German
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Credits
Script by Lupu Pick, Carl Mayer; F. Weinmann, camera.
Performers
Werner Krauss, Paul Otto.
System details note
VHS.
Subjects
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Hollywood's Attic (Firm)
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