

Waxworks
Overview
A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for each other.
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Emil Jannings
Harun al Raschid

Conrad Veidt
Ivan the Terrible

William Dieterle
The Poet / Assad the Baker / Russian Prince

Werner Krauss
Jack the Ripper / Spring-Heeled Jack

Olga Belajeff
Eva-Maimune-Eine Bojarin

John Gottowt
Owner of the Waxworks

Georg John
Owner of the Panoptikums

Ernst Legal
Poison-Maker of the Czar

Paul Biensfeldt
Grand Vizier
Reviews(1)

CinemaSerf
@Geronimo1967June 6, 2022
There is more than a little of the "Dr. Caligari" (1921) to this compendium of three stories. Visually very similar in style, with angular - seemingly disjointed and out of scale sets and wonderfully targeted use of lighting serves to augment these episodes. A waxworks provides that environment wher…
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