#actor: conrad veidt

[sneez]

pathologic but it's a lost 1920s german expressionist film [id under cut]

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image 1: a digital drawing of a fake poster, using bright colours and rough, painterly brushstrokes. the title, 'pest' (german for 'plague'), is written at the top in spiky black text. in the foreground a man dressed as a tragedian is staring intently at the viewer, his hands raised and splayed as if in horror. in the background, the town is framed against a red sky, with the polyhedron in yellow behind.

images 2 and 3: fake casting sheets for the film, with the names of the actors and the characters they are playing above a black-and-white portrait photograph of them. all the text is in german. in english it reads: 'Pest', a film by Robert Wiene Alfred Abel as Victor Kain Ernst Busch as Grief Lil Dagover as Katerina Saburova Ernst Deutsch as the Bachelor Carl de Vogt as Vlad the Younger Marlene Dietrich as the Inquisitor Willy Fritsch as Mark Immortell Alexander Granach as Andrey and Peter Stamatin Bernhard Goetzke as General Block Dolly Haas as the Changeling Ludwig Hartau as the Haruspex Brigitte Helm as Anna Angel Brigitte Horney as Maria Kaina Emil Jannings as Big Vlad Gerda Maurus as Yulia Lyuricheva Lothar Menhert as Georgiy Kain Asta Nielsen as Lara Ravel Ossi Oswalda as Eva Yan Fritz Rasp as Stanislas Rubin Conrad Veidt as Alexander Saburov and Tragedian Paul Wegener as Oyun Gertrud Welcker as Aspity

image 4: four digital sketches of set designs for various locations. all are strongly influenced by expressionist imagery, using extreme angles, warped perspective, and dramatic shapes. they are labelled 'street 1' (a street lined with houses), 'street 2' (a square with a lamppost and a set of steps), 'polyhedron exterior' (the polyhedron walkway), and 'cathedral interior' (the dais at the far end of the cathedral).

image 5: four digital drawings in a black-and-white watercolour style, showing fake stills from the film. all are similarly distorted and lit by dramatic lighting. the first shows katerina's bedroom, with katerina standing in the centre of the floor. the second shows the interior of an infected house. the third shows daniil staring out of the frame in horror, one hand on his head and the other raised as if to ward something off. the fourth shows an intertitle with jagged white text reading 'the first day' against a dark background.

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[vintagesffantasyactors]

James Stewart (It's A Wonderful Life, Bell Book and Candle, Harvey)- he might not be where your brain goes to for "fantasy" right away, but the three I named actually deal really well with magical realism/alternate universe/fantasy elements. I think he's kind of the template for fantasy-meets-reality leading man in some ways because no matter how weird the situation is (angels or witches or a 6' tall invisible rabbit), he always manages to convey this grounded quality so you believe him and what's happening to him. Also he is tall and lanky and gulps a lot and I like men who look like they just want to go home when met with magical crisis situations :)

Conrad Veidt (Waxworks, The Thief of Baghdad)- No text propaganda submitted

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[attheedgeofthecreek]

Christopher Lee on Conrad Veidt

"In 1938 or 39, I can't quite remember precisely, but it was long before I decided to become an actor, and certainly some time before i learned to love golf, I was walking with a friend of my mother's, a very attractive Viennese lady on the golf course, at Wentworth in Surrey. I think she'd been to see a film, and she was going on about it, and saying how much she enjoyed it, and how marvelous the leading actor was, and that in fact she had known him. I rather gathered rather well, and I said 'Oh, I have seen the same film.' It was either Spy in Black or Contraband or one of those pictures that was made before the war, and I was saying to her what a wonderful actor I thought the leading player was, and how he was my idol, and I wished one day that i could be like him. Although, it was still not a question of becoming an actor, and we were talking continually between us about the same man, she from obvious experience, and me just out of the idolatry of a film goer.

And to my complete amazement, Conrad Veidt, one of the greatest actors in the history of the cinema, who actually died on the golf course of a heart attack at the ridiculous age of 49 (I think Casablanca was his last film.) Conrad Veidt suddenly appeared in front of us, playing the hole.

He was a very keen golfer. Well, as you can imagine I was to say the least overcome. Now, later that year he starred as the evil vizier Jaffar in the most wonderful fantasy adventure ever made The Thief of Baghdad. I will never forget--"

(This is only a rough transcript of a video interview; I don't guarantee its accuracy.)

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Conrad Veidt (1893-1943) Schauspieler, Porträt, 1926 | getty images

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[listranz]

[mister-girl]

Can we have men like this again please

[thymelessink]

[postcard-from-the-past]

German-British actor Conrad Veidt on a vintage postcard

[thousurroundingverdure]

[streda]

"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"

One of the first horror films in the world, a German classic and the film that initiated the current horror cinematography.

I often meet people who think that the German classic is weak, not scary and idiotic, but let's think about society in the 1920s. At that time, discussing topics such as murders or mental problems was quite a bold move, There was a time when such topics were never discussed or talked about.

the cast consists of Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, lil Dagover, Friedrich Fehér, Hans Heinrich Von Twardowski and Rudolf Lettinger. a great cast with famous actors and directors in the main roles.

many people will say that the film is hopeless, after all, a sleepwalker breaks into the houses of people whom he predicted (most of them, for example Allan) that they will die soon and during the break-in he murders them. Nowadays, when we have productions such as Saw or similar (sorry, I don't watch current movies, so I don't know what horror movies are like), the movie may seem like a sleeper, but is it like that?

the film is a really great production that is worth watching, after all, it is one of the first full-length horror films and I don't think it is worth criticizing, it was really surprising and immoral for contemporary audiences.

time for a summary.

A traveling hypnotist comes to a provincial town. His medium, the somnambulist Cezar, is the main attraction of the fair show. Soon people start dying in the town. A friend of one of the murdered, Francis , discovers a grim secret - the hypnotist is the reincarnation of the murderous Dr. Caligari, who killed using a medium. The situation is not simple, because Francis follows Caligari to a mental institution.

what is interesting is that the viewer must interpret the film's plot for himself - whether Francis is sane and his story is true or whether he is sick and his accusations are hasty.

I encourage you to watch it.

[character-actor-tournament]

Round 7, match 1 (final match)

Conrad Veidt vs Spring Byington

[sneez]

some posters for conrad veidt films with my cat mole edited in in mspaint

[lisystrata]

If you have Connie then you have everything

Are you in a bad mood? Draw Conrad Veidt!

[thebrideofreanimator]

1920s is trending everyone watch the man who laughs 1928 it is the best movie ever made

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Conrad Veidt (1893-1943), Schauspieler, Rollenporträt, um 1926 | src getty images

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[fructidors]

was anyone going to tell me victor hugo directly led to the creation of the joker. or was i just going to have to find this out myself