Movies: Ernst Ludwig

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A painter with syphilis infects his brother's wife and the child born of their affair....

Every Friday the 13th, a member of the Eulenstein family dies. The son of the most recent victim hires a detective to investigate....

A young unemployed man gets a job as a private secretary by chance. A good salary, a first-class apartment - but things are not going right in his new residence. Notes warn him, a beautiful woman appears in the mirror, valuable documents disappear fr...

Philanthropist attempts to awaken the good side in criminals....

A variation of the famous Oscar Wilde tale in which Dorian Gray's soul is manifested in a painting instead of his own body....

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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....

This movie, directed by Richard Oswald, is based on the operetta "Les contes de Hoffmann" by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), which is a genial musical potpourri from various short stories and novels by the Prussian writer, composer, painter, lawyer an...

Part of the artificial-creature series encompassing Der Golem (1914 and 1920), Alraune (1918, 1928, 1930) and Metropolis (1926), 'Homunculus' was the most popular serial in Germany during World War I even influencing the dress of fashionable Berlin. ...

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