A Night of Horror

1916 film

1916 (1916)

CountryGerman EmpireLanguageSilent

A Night of Horror (German: Nächte des Grauens) is a 1916 silent German horror film directed by Richard Oswald, Arthur Robison and starring Werner Krauss.^[1]^[2] It is the earliest known feature-length film to portray vampires, with vampire-like people appearing in the film.^[3]^[4]

Plot

Poor Maria Lotti, serving as a clerk in a ladies' clothing store, receives a message from a New York notary that her grandfather Joseph Lotti has died. The gang of thieves, the Brothers of Darkness, also received the same message with great detail and rushed to take action. The harassment began.

Grief-stricken, the disillusioned girl falls into poverty. A hard life full of excruciating experiences began. André meets Maria one day quite by chance at the Green Tavern. Meanwhile, Maria and Andre run away.

They had to endure many difficulties and dangers. The Brothers of Darkness gang was overrun, but they did not surrender, and after blowing up their castle, they perished. Maria and Andre took possession of the inheritance and were never separated again.

Cast

In alphabetical order:

Emil Jannings as Banker
Laurence Köhler
Werner Krauss as Artist's Husband
Hans Mierendorff as Magistrate
Ossi Oswalda
Lupu Pick
Lu Synd as Artist

References

^ "Progressive Silent Film List: A Night of Horror". Silent Era. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
^ "Nächte des Grauens". Film Portal. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
^ "Timeline of Greatest Film Milestones and Turning Points in Film History". Filmsite. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
^ "Early Vampire Cinema 1916 to 1974: Part 1". Robert Hood. Retrieved 16 November 2016.

External links

A Night of Horror at IMDb

Films directed by Arthur Robison

A Night of Horror (1916)
Between Evening and Morning (1923)
Warning Shadows (1923)
Peter the Pirate (1925)
Manon Lescaut (1926)
The Last Waltz (1927)
Looping the Loop (1928)
The Informer (1929)
Soyons gais (1930)
Le père célibataire (1931)
Mordprozeß Mary Dugan (1931)
Jenny Lind (1932)
When She's Pretty (1932)
Tambour battant (1933)
Des jungen Dessauers große Liebe (1933)
Count Woronzeff (1934)
Les époux célibataires (1935)
The Secret of Woronzeff (1935)
Make Me Happy (1935)
The Student of Prague (1935)

v t e The films of Richard Oswald
The Iron Cross (1914) Ivan Koschula (1914) The Silent Mill (1914) Laugh Bajazzo (1915) The Vice (1915) Tales of Hoffmann (1916) A Night of Horror (1916) The Uncanny House (1916) The Sea Battle (1917) The Lord of Hohenstein (1917) Let There Be Light (1917) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1917) The Story of Dida Ibsen (1918) Jettchen Gebert's Story (1918) Diary of a Lost Woman (1918) Henriette Jacoby (1918) The House of Three Girls (1918) Die Arche (1919) Different from the Others (1919) Prostitution (1919) Peer Gynt (1919) Around the World in Eighty Days (1919) Unheimliche Geschichten (1919) Figures of the Night (1920) Kurfürstendamm (1920) The Merry-Go-Round (1920) Manolescu's Memoirs (1920) Lady Hamilton (1921) The Golden Plague (1921) The House in Dragon Street (1921) The Love Affairs of Hector Dalmore (1921) Lucrezia Borgia (1922) Carlos and Elisabeth (1924) Semi-Silk (1925) The Wife of Forty Years (1925) Rags and Silk (1925) Should We Be Silent? (1926) When I Came Back (1926) We Belong to the Imperial-Royal Infantry Regiment (1926) The White Horse Inn (1926) Assassination (1927) Radio Magic (1927) Agitated Women (1927) The Transformation of Dr. Bessel (1927) Lützow's Wild Hunt (1927) A Crazy Night (1927) The Green Alley (1928) Villa Falconieri (1928) Spring Awakening (1929) The Mistress and her Servant (1929) Marriage in Trouble (1929) Cagliostro (1929) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1929) Dreyfus (1930) Vienna, City of Song (1930) Alraune (1930) The Tender Relatives (1930) 1914 (1931) Schubert's Dream of Spring (1931) Poor as a Church Mouse (1931) Victoria and Her Hussar (1931) The Captain from Köpenick (1931) Countess Mariza (1932) Unheimliche Geschichten (1932) The Flower of Hawaii (1933) A Song Goes Round the World (1933) Adventures on the Lido (1933) My Song Goes Round the World (1934) When You're Young, the World Belongs to You (1934) Bleeke Bet (1934) Storm over Asia (1938) Isle of Missing Men (1942) The Lovable Cheat (1949)

The films of Richard Oswald