The Head of Janus

The Head of Janus

1920 de 107 minutes

Rating: 0

Plot

The film was an unauthorized adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but the source material went unrecognized by some of the German media due to changes in the characters' names. Released in 1920, this is one of Murnau's lost films. While the film itself does not survive, the scripts and related production notes do. Because the film is lost, its full length is unknown. Dr. Warren is the Dr. Jekyll character who changes into Mr. O'Connor, a parallel of Mr. Hyde. This transformation is brought about, not by experimentation with chemicals as in Stevenson's original, but through the supernatural agency of a bust of Janus (the Roman god of duality), which Warren purchases in the opening sequence as a gift for his sweetheart, Jane. When she refuses the gift, horrified, Warren is forced to keep the statuette himself.

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Cast

Conrad Veidt

Conrad Veidt

Dr. Warren

Magnus Stifter

Magnus Stifter

Warrens Freund

Margarete Schlegel

Margarete Schlegel

Grace

Willy Kaiser-Heyl

Willy Kaiser-Heyl

o. A.

Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi

Warren's Butler

Margarete Kupfer

Margarete Kupfer

o. A.

Danny Guertler

Danny Guertler

o. A.

Gustav Botz

Gustav Botz

o. A.

Jaro Fürth

Jaro Fürth

o. A.

Hans Lanser-Rudolf

Hans Lanser-Rudolf

o. A.

Marga Reuter

Marga Reuter

o. A.

Lanja Rudolph

Lanja Rudolph

o. A.

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