Summary By the director of Cabinet of Dr.Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain, who seeks to convince him that it is better to sacrifice ones own life than take the life of ones enemy. The framing story, taken from a novel, is believed to have been intended to give the Biblical story an anti-Bolshevist propaganda function. In any case, it was added without the knowledge of the actors in the Passion story, who included some of the major stars of the period Asta Nielsen as Mary Magdalene, Henny Porten as Mary, Grigori Chmara as Jesus, and Werner Krauss as Pontius Pilate -bampfa.berkeley.edu View more details
Directed : Robert Wiene
Written : Robert Wiene Peter Rosegger
Stars : Werner Krauss Henny Porten Gregori Chmara Asta Nielsen
Genres : Drama
Release date : Nov 30, 1923
Countries of origin : Germany
Language : None
Filming locations : Atelier Staaken, Berlin, Germany
Production companies : Neumann-Filmproduktion
Summary By the director of Cabinet of Dr.Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain, who seeks to convince him that it is better to sacrifice ones own life than take the life of ones enemy. The framing story, taken from a novel, is believed to have been intended to give the Biblical story an anti-Bolshevist propaganda function. In any case, it was added without the knowledge of the actors in the Passion story, who included some of the major stars of the period Asta Nielsen as Mary Magdalene, Henny Porten as Mary, Grigori Chmara as Jesus, and Werner Krauss as Pontius Pilate -bampfa.berkeley.edu View more details
Genres : Drama
Release date : Nov 30, 1923
Countries of origin : Germany
Language : None
Filming locations : Atelier Staaken, Berlin, Germany
Production companies : Neumann-Filmproduktion
