The Auteur's Selection Complementing the Tone of Funkzauber: Cult G...

Dir: Richard Oswald

Characteristic for Hoffmann's work is his life-long fight against rationalism and for the revelation of nature morte, culminating mostly in carnival-like scenes anticipating literary techniques

Dir: Richard Oswald

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Richard Oswald

A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.

Dir: Richard Oswald

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

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

Dir: Richard Oswald

The second syphilis film poses the moral question: namely how far an illness should be considered a human disgrace. The protagonist of this story, a young doctor, believes that only characterless people can contract the disease through reprehensible actions. At a meeting in honor of a venereologist, a violent dispute erupts between the doctor who applies moral categories and a colleague who argues more objectively. Two events make the dogmatic young doctor think: his sister marries a syphilitic who has not yet been completely healed, and he himself falls ill as a result of a kiss from a young woman who also suffers from syphilis. But the doctor is healed and reconsiders his previous attitude.

Dir: Richard Oswald

In ancient, Tsarist Russia. Fyodor Protasov's marriage to his wife Lisa is over. However, the Russian Orthodox Church does not approve of a divorce, and so Protasov fakes his own suicide, before Lisa move in with her lover Viktor Karenin. Fyodor himself becomes a "living corpse".

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

Dir: Richard Oswald

About alcoholism, which can develop into a terrible family tradition. Paul is the son of a drinker. One day his father is killed in an inn. Despite the bad example set by his father, Paul is also unable to give up alcohol.

Dir: Richard Oswald

In order to win a bet, British gentleman Phileas Fogg attempts to circle the globe in eighty days, along with his French servant, Passepartout. Fogg is wrongly suspected of having robbed the Bank of England and faces the risk of arrest.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Es werde Licht! 2. Teil perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Richard Oswald

Paul Mauthner, a painter, has syphilis. A quack who promises a cure cannot help. Paul seduces his brother's wife and infects her with syphilis. While he then flees, the young, infected woman dies of the disease. The daughter born of this liaison, also infected, is admitted to a special clinic and can be cured there.

Dir: Richard Oswald

Philanthropist attempts to awaken in the good side in criminals.