Waxworks (1924)

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(2307)

Country: Germany
Genres: Fantasy, Horror
Release: 1929-02-01
Director: Leo Birinsky , Paul Leni
Writers: Henrik Galeen
Language: None | German
Stars: Emil Jannings , Conrad Veidt , Werner Krauss , Werner Krauss , William Dieterle (1893–1972) , William Dieterle (1893–1972) , William Dieterle (1893–1972) , Olga Belajeff , Paul Biensfeldt , John Gottowt , Georg John , Ernst Legal
Runtime: 107 min
Awards: 1 nomination
AKA: Kabinet voscenih kipov (Slovenia) , Ivan the Terrible , Das Wachsfigurenkabinett (Germany) , El hombre de las figuras de cera (Spain) , Waxworks (Canada) , Le cabinet des figures de cire (France, French Republic) , Caliph of Baghdad , El gabinet de les figures de cera (Spain) , Das Wachsfigurenkabinett , O Gabinete das Figuras de Cera (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Gabinet figur woskowych (Poland) , Figuras de Cera (Brazil) , Воштани кипови (Serbia) , Восковые фигуры , Harun Al-Rashid , Waxworks (United States of America) , Das Wachsfigurenkabinett (Japan) , Three Wax Men , Кабинетът с восъчните фигури (Bulgaria) , O Gabinete das Figuras de Cera (Brazil) , Jack the Ripper , The Caliph of Baghdad , A gabinete das figuras de cera , Panoptikum (Hungary) , Waxworks (United Kingdom) , The Three Wax Works , Il gabinetto delle figure di cera (Italy) , A Barraca das Figuras de Cera (Portugal, Portuguese Republic)
Plot: The owner of a Waxmuseum needs for three of his models stories to be told to the audience. For that reason he has hired a writer, who after one look at the owner's pretty daughter, starts writing stories featuring the models, the daughter and himself. In the first, he is a baker, married to the girl, who is a little bit too much flirting with the customers, among them the wezir of sultan Harun Al-Rashid, who has just ordered his execution because the smell from the bakery is drifting to his palace, yet Harun Al-Rashid wants to meet the beautiful girl himself, while an angry baker is trying to get the Sultan's whishing ring to proof he's not a weakling... The second story is about Tzar Ivan the Terrible who likes watching people die together with his court-chemist. When he orders the execution of the chemist, the chemist thinks of a nice revanche, but till the revanche works, a nobleman is murdered, his daughter kidnapped by Ivan and her groom tortured. While writing the third story about Jack the Ripper, he falls asleep and dreams he and the girl are pursued by that serial killer.
IMDB:tt0014586