Masterpiece Selection that Capture the Essence of Homunculus, 2. Teil - Das geheimnisvolle Buch: Cult Guide

Dir: Otto Rippert

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Otto Rippert

Suddenly appearing in Florence, an evil seductress causes Cesare, the city's ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. The son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the city's churches into dens of sexual debauchery. Acts of evil and corruption continue unabated until the arrival of Death, who brings with her a horrible plague which she is about to loose upon the city.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Pest in Florenz perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Otto Rippert

Richard Ortmann the artificial man (Homunculus) has become the head of the corporation that represents the capital and power of the country, but he has stopped believing in human love. All the more clear is his goal now: the annihilation of mankind.

Dir: Otto Rippert

A group of scientists, led by a Professor Ortmann, produce a living human child using scientific processes - a "homunculus." This creature is human in every way, except that he cannot experience love.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Homunculus, 4. Teil - Die Rache des Homunculus perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Otto Rippert

In this apparently lost film, a beautiful dancer's sexual allure is used by an evil cripple to entice men to their deaths. Falling in love with one of the potential victims, she is told by the cripple that he will set her free if her lover, actually a murderer himself, survives and escapes a bizarre labyrinthe which runs beneath the cripple's house.

Dir: Otto Rippert

Film made in 1919 by the Gesellschaft zur Bekämpfung des Mädchenhandels [Society for the Struggle Against White Slavery or Society for the Prevention of Girl Trafficking (the translation can vary)] to inform the public about the trafficking of European girls and their impressment into prostitution (often in South America).

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

Dir: Otto Rippert

Foenss, a Danish star, is the perfect creature manufactured in a laboratory by Kuehne. Having discovered his origins, that he has no 'soul' and is incapable of love, he revenges himself on mankind, instigating revolutions and becoming a monstrous but beautiful tyrant, relentlessly pursued by his creator-father who seeks to rectify his mistake.

Dir: Otto Rippert

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

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

Dir: Otto Rippert

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Otto Rippert

Young Aenne Wolter comes from a safe and secure world, but carelessness leads her down the wrong path when she seeks adventure in the big city. She is seduced and abducted and ends up in the quagmire of brothels and prostitution. Grete Kröning also has to share her ordeal. She also falls into the hands of unscrupulous traffickers led by Ignatz Czyslow, and she too ends up in a brothel.