The Recommended Vault Deeply Connected to Die Nacht der Königin Isabeau: Cult Guide

Dir: Robert Wiene

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Robert Wiene

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Crown of Thorns perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

By the director of Cabinet of Dr.Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain, who seeks to convince him that it is better to sacrifice ones own life than take the life of ones enemy. The framing story, taken from a novel, is believed to have been intended to give the Biblical story an anti-Bolshevist propaganda function. In any case, it was added without the knowledge of the actors in the Passion story, who included some of the major stars of the period Asta Nielsen as Mary Magdalene, Henny Porten as Mary, Grigori Chmara as Jesus, and Werner Krauss as Pontius Pilate -bampfa.berkeley.edu

Dir: Robert Wiene

Simultaneously filmed French version of the German film Der Andere: A strict legal official,in a variation of the Jekyll and Hyde plot, turns into a criminal at night.

Dir: Robert Wiene

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of L'autre perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Leontine, a French dancer who likes "the good life", has come up with an ingenious solution to her financial problems--whenever she's broke, she marries a man with money. However, her latest husband, the Marquis Verrac, is wealthy but boring, and soon Leontine tires of life in his castle and yearns to get back to the fun and good times she had before she married.

Dir: Robert Wiene

A student murders a loan shark and her sister after writing about exceptional people's right to commit crimes. He meets prostitute Sonja while on the run, clashes with his sister's fiancé, and learns of Sonja's connection.

Dir: Robert Wiene

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Leontines Ehemänner perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A doll maker in China crafts a puppet which is lifelike. He takes it to exhibit but find an even more convincing and beautiful doll there. It is in fact a real woman pretending to be a doll

Dir: Robert Wiene

The young bride Anna von Glassner receives mysterious letters shortly before her wedding with Count von Fahrenwald. The Count is said to be insane.

Dir: Robert Wiene

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Crime and Punishment perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he doesn't know they once belonged to a murderer.

Dir: Robert Wiene

"A Woman's Revenge" - In order to punish her cold, brutal aristocratic husband for murdering her lover, a woman becomes a common prostitute to shame him.

Dir: Robert Wiene

While her husband illustrated himself in the war, the Maréchale de Werdenberg took comfort in the arms of the young Octavian and tried to arrange the affairs of his cousin, the Baron Ochs, by introducing him to a young girl.