Life Is a Dream (1917 film)

Life Is a Dream
Directed by	Robert Wiene
Produced by	Oskar Messter
Written by	Richard Wurmfeld Robert Wiene
Starring	Emil Jannings Bruno Decarli Maria Fein
Production company	Messter Film
Distributed by	Hansa Film
Release dates	February 1917 (1917-02)
Country	German Empire
Language	Silent German intertitles

Life Is a Dream (German: Das Leben ein Traum) is a 1917 German silent drama film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Emil Jannings, Bruno Decarli and Maria Fein. A young aristocrat meets a man and marries him, but soon discovers he is a monster. After his death she grows increasingly mad, until a revolutionary new cure is attempted which makes her believe that the whole episode was simply a dream.^[1]

Cast

References

↑ Jung & Schatzberg p.37

Bibliography

Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. Berghahn Books, 1999.

External links

Life Is a Dream at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Robert Wiene

He This Way, She That Way (1914)
The Canned Bride (1915)
Frau Eva (1916)
The Queen's Love Letter (1916)
The Queen's Secretary (1916)
The Wandering Light (1916)
The Robber Bride (1916)
Lehmann's Honeymoon (1916)
The Man in the Mirror (1917)
Life Is a Dream (1917)
Steadfast Benjamin (1917)
Fear (1917)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
The Three Dances of Mary Wilford (1920)
Genuine (1920)
The Night of Queen Isabeau (1920)
Panic in the House of Ardon (1920)
A Woman's Revenge (1921)
Playing with Fire (1921)
The Infernal Power (1922)
Raskolnikow (1923)
The Doll Maker of Kiang-Ning (1923)
I.N.R.I. (1923)
The Hands of Orlac (1924)
Boarding House Groonen (1925)
The Guardsman (1925)
Der Rosenkavalier (1926)
The Queen of Moulin Rouge (1926)
The Mistress (1927)
The Famous Woman (1927)
The Woman on the Rack (1928)
Leontine's Husbands (1928)
The Great Adventuress (1928)
Folly of Love (1928)
The Other (1930)
The Prosecutor Hallers (1930)
The Love Express (1931)
Venetian Nights (1931)
Panic in Chicago (1931)
Typhoon (1933)
A Night in Venice (1934)
Ultimatum (1938)

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