#weimar cinema

[minayuri]

"I need life, the strong breath of the unusual - sensation - adventure… but I'm afraid they are extinct."

Gertude Welcker in DR. MABUSE, DER SPIELER (1922) | dir. Fritz Lang

[celebratetheclassics]

Asphalt (Joe May, 1929)

[rubylured]

All of the covers I made for my Weimar film class papers.

[suchamiracle-does-exist]

Happy birthday to dear birthday boy <3

[crow-in-springtime]

Sorry I didn’t respond to your text, I was having thoughts that can only be communicated through the German expressionist films of the Weimar Republic

[mrmousetolliver]

Viktor und Viktoria (1933) written and directed by Reinhold Schunzel.

[countess--olenska]

Conrad Veidt

[victusinveritas]

Fern Andra and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski

Genuine: A Tale of a Vampire (1920)

[pacingmusings]

Seen (again) in 2024:

Madchen in Uniform (Leontine Sagan & Carl Froelich), 1931

[mabusecaligari]

Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern (1930) - William Dieterle

[minayuri]

"There is a foreign element among us!"

Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (1922) | dir. Fritz Lang

[celebratetheclassics]

Gerda Maurus in Spies (Fritz Lang, 1928)

[doomed-jester]

Expressionism ran so Tim Burton could trip, fall down the stairs and break every bone in his body.

[suchamiracle-does-exist]

Kreuzzug des Weibes (1926, dir. Martin Berger)

[blacknarcissus]

Manolescu: the Prince of Adventures (1929)

[power-chords]

Cathy S. Gelbin, excerpted from “From Sexual Enlightenment to Racial Antisemitism: Gender, Sex, and Jewishness in Weimar Cinema’s Monsters,” her essay in Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History, 2019.