Dir: F W Murnau | Germany. 1921
Described by Siegfried Kracauer as “a crime picture visibly influenced by the Swedes” and itself a probable forerunner of La Regle du Jeu, the plays of Agatha Christie and Gosford Park, Schloss Vogelod is superficially more realistic than one might expect from F. W. Murnau, although the bizarre dream sequence depicting a huge hand reaching in through a window would alone qualify it as one of his fantasies.
Murnau’s films usually concerned themselves with the grotesque and the predicament of outsiders; but the casual elegance of Hermann Warm’s oppressively large sets and the immaculate dress of the occupants more properly belong to the world of Marienbad. @RichardChatten
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