The Wife of Forty Years (German:Die Frau von vierzig Jahren) is a 1925 German silent film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Diana Karenne, Vladimir Gajdarov and Sig Arno. The film's art direction was by Paul Leni.
, 1h47 Réalisé parRichard Oswald GenresComédie ThèmesAdaptation d'une pièce de théâtre ActeursMax Adalbert, Paul Otto, Max Gülstorff, Käthe Haack, Friedrich Kayßler, Hans Leibelt Note68% Der Hauptmann von Köpenick is based on a true story that took place in Germany in 1906. A poor cobbler named Wilhelm Voigt purchased the second-hand uniform of a Prussian infantry captain. Wearing this, he travelled to the borough of Köpenick and ordered a troop of guardsmen to place themselves under his command. He then declared the town hall to be under military law, ordering the arrest of the mayor and treasurer and confiscating all the funds in the exchequer. In this film version it's a considerable sum of 4,000 reichsmarks. Voigt's orders were obeyed without question and he temporarily got away with the caper, although he was eventually caught.
, 1h29 Réalisé parRichard Oswald GenresHorreur ActeursPaul Wegener, Maria Koppenhöfer, Gerhard Bienert, Blandine Ebinger, Eugen Gottlob Klöpfer, Paul Henckels Note64% A crazed scientist, Morder (Paul Wegener), driven even crazier by his nagging wife, murders her and walls her up in a basement, a la Poe's The Black Cat. He then flees as the police and a reporter, Frank Briggs (Harald Paulsen), set out to track him down. Morder eventually escapes, by pretending to be insane, into an asylum. Though here the patients has managed to free themselves, lock up the guards, and take charge (inspired by Poe's The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether). After Morder's final escape, he turns up as president of a secret Suicide Club (based on the short story by Stevenson).