Homunculus (1917)

19171h 16mdir. Otto RippertGermanGermanysilent film

Note: this print runs 76 minutes against a recorded 196 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Olaf Fønss, Max Ruhbeck, Friedrich Kühne, Theodor Loos, Mechthildis Thein, Aud Egede-Nissen, Norina Matchabelli, Lupu Pick

Directed by Otto Rippert

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Homunculus is a 1916 German silent science fiction serial film directed by Otto Rippert and written by Robert Reinert. Other sources list Robert Neuss as a co-writer. Fritz Lang was one of Rippert's assistants during filming. It was originally produced by Deutsche Bioscop GmbH.

Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.

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