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After filming the landmark Nosferatu, the silent cinema’s master innovator F. W. Murnau demonstrated the reach of his genre versatility with a pair of films that explored the dimensions of the psychodrama and the adventure-programmer. All the Murnau characteristics are present: a vibrant naturalism, exquisite imagery, passages of dreamlike revery, and an atmosphere redolent with romantic longing. In Phantom, an aspiring poet on the verge of what he takes for a big break experiences a chance encounter with a beautiful woman in the street — and falls headlong into love and fantasy. With debts piling up and his promised literary celebrity failing to materialise, the poet descends into obsession, deception, and, ultimately, a criminal act in this delirious film that stands as an early precursor of Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
Original Release
11/13/1922
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Alfred Abel | Lorenz Lubota |
Frida Richard | Lubotas Mutter / Lubota's Mother |
Aud Egede-Nissen | Melanie Lubota |
Adolf Klein | Eisenwarenhändler Harlan / Harlan |
Olga Engl | Harlan's Wife / Harlans Frau |
Lya De Putti | Veronika Harlan / Mellitta |
Ilka Grüning | Baroness / Baronin |
Grete Berger | Pawnbroker Schwabe / Pfandleiherin Schwabe |
Anton Edthofer | Wigottschinski |
Karl Etlinger | Buchbinder Starke / Bookbinder Starke |
Directors
Writers
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Gerhart Hauptmann, Thea von Harbou
Cast
Name | Character |
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Alfred Abel | Lorenz Lubota |
Frida Richard | Lubotas Mutter / Lubota's Mother |
Aud Egede-Nissen | Melanie Lubota |
Adolf Klein | Eisenwarenhändler Harlan / Harlan |
Olga Engl | Harlan's Wife / Harlans Frau |
Lya De Putti | Veronika Harlan / Mellitta |
Ilka Grüning | Baroness / Baronin |
Grete Berger | Pawnbroker Schwabe / Pfandleiherin Schwabe |
Anton Edthofer | Wigottschinski |
Karl Etlinger | Buchbinder Starke / Bookbinder Starke |
Lil Dagover | Marie Starke |
Heinrich Witte | Clerk / Amtsdiener |
Wilhelm Diegelmann | Literary Editor |
Ursula Nest | Little Girl playing near Harlan house |
Gerhart Hauptmann | Self in Opening Credits |
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski | Hugo Lubota |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Jeffery Masino | Producer |
Erich Pommer | Producer |