A man has an accident while out riding his horse one day. He soon discovers that he now has a split personality, and that his alternate is helping a criminal to rob his house.
Paul Lindau, Max Mack, Hippolyte Taine
Germany
Hallers’ horse stumbles, the camera lingers on a twitching glove, and in that quiver the entire bourgeois universe splits like celluloid on fire. Forget the polite whodunits of early British cinema; Der Andere is a fever graph drawn by Paul Lindau, Max Mack and philosopher-critic Hippolyte Taine, a film that anticipa...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Max Mack
Max Mack
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" Hallers’ horse stumbles, the camera lingers on a twitching glove, and in that quiver the entire bourgeois universe splits like celluloid on fire. Forget the polite whodunits of early British cinema; Der Andere is a fever graph drawn by Paul Lindau, Max Mack and philosopher-critic Hippolyte Taine, a film that anticipates not only Caligari’s asylum corridors but the post-modern notion that identity itself is a black-market currency. The plot, deceptively tidy—accident, split, robbery—unfurls int..."
