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Homunculus
(1916) German
B&W : Serial / Six episodes
Directed by Otto Rippert

Cast: Olaf Fönss, Friedrich Kühne, Aud Egede Nissen, Maria Carmi, Lupu Pick

Deutsche Bioscop GmbH production. / Scenario by Robert Reinert. Cinematography by Carl Hoffmann. Set design by Robert A. Dietrich. / Six episodes (one hour each episode). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Bardèche-History p. 135 [?] mistakenly? identifies this as a Nordisk Films Kompagni production (or release).

Drama.

Survival Status: Incomplete prints exist in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive (Roberto Pallme collection) [6793 feet (1920 colored rerelease version, Italian intertitles, preserved 2002)], in the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv film archive [one black & white episode], in the Národní Filmovy Archiv film archive [one black & white episode], in the Cinémathèque Suisse film archive [250 metres, German flash intertitles].

Keywords: Serials

Listing updated: 17 October 2009.

References: Aylesworth-Monsters pp. 44, 143; Bardèche-History p. 135; Manchel-Terrors pp. 19-20, 64, 75 : Website-Lost; Website-SerSq.

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