Warning Shadows
Oct 16 1923
•2h 30m
•Thriller, Fantasy, Drama, Horror
During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife. Or was it a vision?
Cast
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Alexander Granach
Shadowplayer
Fritz Kortner
The Count
Ruth Weyher
His Wife
Gustav von Wangenheim
Her Lover
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