Messters Projektion GmbH

An ambitious wife spends all of her husband's hard-earned money and then commits suicide out of remorse.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

a silent movie by Rober Wiene

First feature film produced by the German pioneer Oskar Messter

A love doctor successfully produces men on order for needy women, until his system for delivering them – through the mail as puppets in canisters - goes awry.

Klara and her father have been alone since her mother died. Her close friend Hans leaves for the military, and on returning as a fine young man, rushes to see Klara. As their families work to keep them apart, their love grows stronger and stronger.

A nude couple pose in an art studio on a square rug, while the camera does a circular traveling around them; the woman has her right knee on the floor and her right arm raised in front of her face, holding the man's thighs with her right, while the man is bent forward, as if looking in the distance.

The two daughters of the fisherman find husbands.

Only 3 minutes of this Oskar Messter short film survive.

A silent musical number.

Alexander Girardi sings the cabbage song

In the image of Salomé, the excluded other - nature, sexuality, the feminine - returns as an attraction and a threat. In a mixture of striptease and opera, Adorée Villany in front of the camera crosses the boundaries of both genres.

Sigmund Liban sings forty second from the prologue to PAGLIACCI in this early sound film.