The Phantom Carriage - 1921

Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish (intertitles)
Director: Victor Sjöström
Writers: Selma Lagerlöf (novel), Victor Sjöström
Stars: Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström and Tore Svennberg
Release Date: 4 June 1922 (USA)
Also known as: Körkarlen Sweden (original title); The Phantom Carriage (undefined) / International (English title); A Carruagem Fantasma (Brazil); A halál kocsisa (Hungary); Ajomies (Finland); Der Fuhrmann des Todes (Germany); Furman smierci(Poland); I amaxa fantasma (Greece - festival title); Il carretto fantasma (Italy); Køresvenden (Denmark); La charrette fantôme (France); O Carro Fantasma(Portugal); The Phantom Chariot (undefined); The Stroke of Midnight (undefined); Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness (undefined); Wózek-widmo (Poland)
Filming Locations: Svensk Filmindustri, Filmstaden, Råsunda, Stockholms län, Sweden
Production Co: Svensk Filmindustri (SF)
Sound Mix: Silent
Color: Black and White
It's New Year's Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner, will have to drive during the whole year the Phantom Chariot, the one that picks up the souls of the dead... David Holm, one of the three drunkards, dies at the last stroke of midnight...

The Student of Prague (1926) 9/9

Directed by Henrik Galeen
Conrad Veidt - Balduin, a student
Werner Krauss - Scapinelli, a money lender
Balduin, a poor student, makes a Faustian pact with a money lender, Scapinelli. In return for a fortune, enough to court the woman of Balduin's dreams, Scapinelli is permitted to take one thing belonging to the student... the reflection in his mirror.

The Student of Prague (1926) 8/9

Directed by Henrik Galeen
Conrad Veidt - Balduin, a student
Werner Krauss - Scapinelli, a money lender
Balduin, a poor student, makes a Faustian pact with a money lender, Scapinelli. In return for a fortune, enough to court the woman of Balduin's dreams, Scapinelli is permitted to take one thing belonging to the student... the reflection in his mirror.

The Student of Prague (1926) 7/9

Directed by Henrik Galeen
Conrad Veidt - Balduin, a student
Werner Krauss - Scapinelli, a money lender
Balduin, a poor student, makes a Faustian pact with a money lender, Scapinelli. In return for a fortune, enough to court the woman of Balduin's dreams, Scapinelli is permitted to take one thing belonging to the student... the reflection in his mirror.

The Student of Prague (1926) 6/9

Directed by Henrik Galeen
Conrad Veidt - Balduin, a student
Werner Krauss - Scapinelli, a money lender
Balduin, a poor student, makes a Faustian pact with a money lender, Scapinelli. In return for a fortune, enough to court the woman of Balduin's dreams, Scapinelli is permitted to take one thing belonging to the student... the reflection in his mirror.

The Student of Prague (1926) 5/9

Directed by Henrik Galeen
Conrad Veidt - Balduin, a student
Werner Krauss - Scapinelli, a money lender
Balduin, a poor student, makes a Faustian pact with a money lender, Scapinelli. In return for a fortune, enough to court the woman of Balduin's dreams, Scapinelli is permitted to take one thing belonging to the student... the reflection in his mirror.

The Student of Prague (1926) 4/9

Directed by Henrik Galeen
Conrad Veidt - Balduin, a student
Werner Krauss - Scapinelli, a money lender
Balduin, a poor student, makes a Faustian pact with a money lender, Scapinelli. In return for a fortune, enough to court the woman of Balduin's dreams, Scapinelli is permitted to take one thing belonging to the student... the reflection in his mirror.

The Student of Prague (1926) 3/9

Directed by Henrik Galeen
Conrad Veidt - Balduin, a student
Werner Krauss - Scapinelli, a money lender
Balduin, a poor student, makes a Faustian pact with a money lender, Scapinelli. In return for a fortune, enough to court the woman of Balduin's dreams, Scapinelli is permitted to take one thing belonging to the student... the reflection in his mirror.

The Student of Prague (1926) 2/9

Directed by Henrik Galeen
Conrad Veidt - Balduin, a student
Werner Krauss - Scapinelli, a money lender
Balduin, a poor student, makes a Faustian pact with a money lender, Scapinelli. In return for a fortune, enough to court the woman of Balduin's dreams, Scapinelli is permitted to take one thing belonging to the student... the reflection in his mirror.

The Student of Prague (1926) 1/9

Directed by Henrik Galeen
Conrad Veidt - Balduin, a student
Werner Krauss - Scapinelli, a money lender
Balduin, a poor student, makes a Faustian pact with a money lender, Scapinelli. In return for a fortune, enough to court the woman of Balduin's dreams, Scapinelli is permitted to take one thing belonging to the student... the reflection in his mirror.

Waxworks (1924) 9/9

Directed by: Paul Leni & Leo Birinski
Emil Jannings - Harun al-Rashid, Caliph of Baghdad
Conrad Veidt - Ivan the Terrible
Werner Krauss - Jack the Ripper/Spring-heeled Jack
William Dieterle - The Poet
The owner of a waxworks ask a young writer to create a back story for three of the museums most popular attractions: the wax figures of an exuberant late 8th century Persian caliph, Harun al-Rashid, the tyrannical Russian Tzar Ivan the Terrible, and Victorian legend, Spring-heeled Jack (also referred to, confusingly, as Jack the Ripper in the film, although the two are not one and the same).
An intriguing example of German Expressionism.

Waxworks (1924) 8/9

Directed by: Paul Leni & Leo Birinski
Emil Jannings - Harun al-Rashid, Caliph of Baghdad
Conrad Veidt - Ivan the Terrible
Werner Krauss - Jack the Ripper/Spring-heeled Jack
William Dieterle - The Poet
The owner of a waxworks ask a young writer to create a back story for three of the museums most popular attractions: the wax figures of an exuberant late 8th century Persian caliph, Harun al-Rashid, the tyrannical Russian Tzar Ivan the Terrible, and Victorian legend, Spring-heeled Jack (also referred to, confusingly, as Jack the Ripper in the film, although the two are not one and the same).
An intriguing example of German Expressionism.

Waxworks (1924) 7/9

Directed by: Paul Leni & Leo Birinski
Emil Jannings - Harun al-Rashid, Caliph of Baghdad
Conrad Veidt - Ivan the Terrible
Werner Krauss - Jack the Ripper/Spring-heeled Jack
William Dieterle - The Poet
The owner of a waxworks ask a young writer to create a back story for three of the museums most popular attractions: the wax figures of an exuberant late 8th century Persian caliph, Harun al-Rashid, the tyrannical Russian Tzar Ivan the Terrible, and Victorian legend, Spring-heeled Jack (also referred to, confusingly, as Jack the Ripper in the film, although the two are not one and the same).
An intriguing example of German Expressionism.

Waxworks (1924) 6/9

Directed by: Paul Leni & Leo Birinski
Emil Jannings - Harun al-Rashid, Caliph of Baghdad
Conrad Veidt - Ivan the Terrible
Werner Krauss - Jack the Ripper/Spring-heeled Jack
William Dieterle - The Poet
The owner of a waxworks ask a young writer to create a back story for three of the museums most popular attractions: the wax figures of an exuberant late 8th century Persian caliph, Harun al-Rashid, the tyrannical Russian Tzar Ivan the Terrible, and Victorian legend, Spring-heeled Jack (also referred to, confusingly, as Jack the Ripper in the film, although the two are not one and the same).
An intriguing example of German Expressionism.

Waxworks (1924) 5/9

Directed by: Paul Leni & Leo Birinski
Emil Jannings - Harun al-Rashid, Caliph of Baghdad
Conrad Veidt - Ivan the Terrible
Werner Krauss - Jack the Ripper/Spring-heeled Jack
William Dieterle - The Poet
The owner of a waxworks ask a young writer to create a back story for three of the museums most popular attractions: the wax figures of an exuberant late 8th century Persian caliph, Harun al-Rashid, the tyrannical Russian Tzar Ivan the Terrible, and Victorian legend, Spring-heeled Jack (also referred to, confusingly, as Jack the Ripper in the film, although the two are not one and the same).
An intriguing example of German Expressionism.

Waxworks (1924) 4/9

Directed by: Paul Leni & Leo Birinski
Emil Jannings - Harun al-Rashid, Caliph of Baghdad
Conrad Veidt - Ivan the Terrible
Werner Krauss - Jack the Ripper/Spring-heeled Jack
William Dieterle - The Poet
The owner of a waxworks ask a young writer to create a back story for three of the museums most popular attractions: the wax figures of an exuberant late 8th century Persian caliph, Harun al-Rashid, the tyrannical Russian Tzar Ivan the Terrible, and Victorian legend, Spring-heeled Jack (also referred to, confusingly, as Jack the Ripper in the film, although the two are not one and the same).
An intriguing example of German Expressionism.

Waxworks (1924) 3/9

Directed by: Paul Leni & Leo Birinski
Emil Jannings - Harun al-Rashid, Caliph of Baghdad
Conrad Veidt - Ivan the Terrible
Werner Krauss - Jack the Ripper/Spring-heeled Jack
William Dieterle - The Poet
The owner of a waxworks ask a young writer to create a back story for three of the museums most popular attractions: the wax figures of an exuberant late 8th century Persian caliph, Harun al-Rashid, the tyrannical Russian Tzar Ivan the Terrible, and Victorian legend, Spring-heeled Jack (also referred to, confusingly, as Jack the Ripper in the film, although the two are not one and the same).
An intriguing example of German Expressionism.

Waxworks (1924) 2/9

Directed by: Paul Leni & Leo Birinski
Emil Jannings - Harun al-Rashid, Caliph of Baghdad
Conrad Veidt - Ivan the Terrible
Werner Krauss - Jack the Ripper/Spring-heeled Jack
William Dieterle - The Poet
The owner of a waxworks ask a young writer to create a back story for three of the museums most popular attractions: the wax figures of an exuberant late 8th century Persian caliph, Harun al-Rashid, the tyrannical Russian Tzar Ivan the Terrible, and Victorian legend, Spring-heeled Jack (also referred to, confusingly, as Jack the Ripper in the film, although the two are not one and the same).
An intriguing example of German Expressionism.

Waxworks (1924) 1/9

Directed by: Paul Leni & Leo Birinski
Emil Jannings - Harun al-Rashid, Caliph of Baghdad
Conrad Veidt - Ivan the Terrible
Werner Krauss - Jack the Ripper/Spring-heeled Jack
William Dieterle - The Poet
The owner of a waxworks ask a young writer to create a back story for three of the museums most popular attractions: the wax figures of an exuberant late 8th century Persian caliph, Harun al-Rashid, the tyrannical Russian Tzar Ivan the Terrible, and Victorian legend, Spring-heeled Jack (also referred to, confusingly, as Jack the Ripper in the film, although the two are not one and the same).
An intriguing example of German Expressionism.