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Narr und Tod

1920

A slow, sombre silent-era drama that unfolds through a diary, drifting toward eerie dread rather than shocks.

Directed by
Rudolf Stiaßny
Genres
Drama, Horror
Starring
Lisa Kresse, Carl Goetz, Dora Kaiser
Overview
The sculptor Peter Starling shot himself in the museum. When the museum director examined the body, he found a diary from whose entries he could deduce the reason for the suicide: Starling had once come across a mummy and a papyrus scroll on a trip to Egypt and had given both artifacts to the museum upon his return. Starling was able to deduce from the papyrus scroll with the cuneiform writing that the mummy, once a king's daughter, would one day awaken and then live as long as the mummy wanted.

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Directed by
Rudolf Stiaßny
Genres
Drama, Horror
Starring
Lisa Kresse, Carl Goetz, Dora Kaiser
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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • death
    • obsession
    • fate
    • madness
    Places
    • home
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence mild
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror6
    Humour0
    Realism5
    Romance1
    Tension5
    Darkness7
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight6

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    Details

    Genres
    drama, horror
    Directed by
    Rudolf Stiaßny
    Written by
    Rudolf Stiaßny
    Starring
    Lisa Kresse, Carl Goetz, Dora Kaiser, Hans Lackner, Paul Kronegg
    Country
    Austria
    Languages
    German, No Language

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