Rare Cinematic Gems Exploring the Legacy of Pan Twardowski: Cult Guide

Dir: Joe May

Irene saves Herbert and the two help Princess Savitri flee the palace.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

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

After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.

Dir: F.W. Murnau

In the castle Vogeloed, a few aristocrats are awaiting baroness Safferstätt. But first Count Oetsch invites himself.. Everyone thinks he murdered his brother, baroness Safferstat's first husband, three years ago. So he is rather undesirable. But Oetsch stays; arguing he is not the murderer and will find the real one...

Dir: Edward F. Cline

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

A bank clerk ends up in a seemingly haunted house that is actually a thieves' hideout.

Dir: Charles Swickard

A young Egyptian goes to the rescue of his employers, a wealthy European family, when they are menaced by a local strongman and his gang.

Dir: Joe May

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Jacques Feyder

Two men, lost in the desert, meet Queen Antinea, ruler of Atlantis.

Dir: Károly Lajthay

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

A girl has frightening visions after visiting an insane asylum where one of the inmates claims to be Drakula and she can not be sure whether they were a nightmare or real.

Dir: Gustav Adolf Olsen

In the most beautiful Telemark a young boy grown up on a rich farm wanting to be a fiddle player like the son at the poorer neighboring farm, to his father's dislike. One day the father is found dead.

Dir: Jan S. Kolár

Richard Bor brings his neighbor, the landowner Drazicky, an old book. The latter tries in vain to persuade his wife Dagmar to leave. In the book Drazicky finds the story of the Mystery of the Black Tower and he falls asleep. He goes into the tower and finds an alchemist's laboratory and the body of a man holding instructions describing how he can be revived. Drazicky successfully carries out the experiment and finds out that the man is his ancestor Jesek Drazicky who lived during the time of Rudolf II. He had become the apprentice of the alchemist Borro who had entrusted him with the mystery of the elixir of life.