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Phantom is a american film of genre Drama directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau with Alfred Abel
Phantom (1922)
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Add to a movie listPhantom is a 1922 silent film that was directed by F. W. Murnau the same year Murnau directed Nosferatu. It is an example of German Expressionist film and has a surreal, dreamlike quality.
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The film is told in an extended flashback. Lorenz Lubota (Alfred Abel), is a clerk in a minor government office, an aspiring poet, and a member of a family headed by a worrisome mother who has a tense relationship with a daughter, Melanie, whom the mother believes works as a prostitute. One day, while Lorenz is walking to work, a woman (Lya De Putti) driving two white horses hits him in the road, knocking him to the ground. Physically, he is unharmed, but from that point forward, the woman in the carriage (named Veronika) consumes his every thought.Actors
Alfred Abel
(Lorenz Lubota)
Lil Dagover
(Marie Starke)
Lya De Putti
(Veronika Harlan / Mellitta)
Anton Edthofer
(Wigottschinski)
Aud Egede-Nissen
(Melanie Lubota)
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