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The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Bertolt Brecht with Erwin Faber

The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop (1923)

The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop
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Length 32minutes
Directed by ,    
OriginGerman
Genres Drama,    Comedy
Rating60% 3.039853.039853.039853.039853.03985

Mysteries of a Barbershop (German: Mysterien eines Frisiersalons) is a comic, slapstick German film of 33 minutes, created by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Erich Engel, and starring the Munich cabaret clown Karl Valentin and leading stage actor Erwin Faber. Brecht reportedly did not write a complete shooting script, but rather produced "notes" and "parts of a manuscript" (according to Faber) for this short, silent film and intended the actors to improvise the action. Although the film was not considered a success by any of its creative team, and consequently never released as a profit making film to the public, it has been recognized and acknowledged—since its re-discovery in a Moscow archive in the 1970s—as one of the 100 most important German films of all time.

Synopsis

The plot revolves around Dr. Moras (Faber) who visits a barber (Valentin), who accidentally shaves Moras to look like a Chinese person (above, left), and then mistakenly cuts off Moras' rival's head (photo, above, right), which is sewn back on by the barber's assistant (Ebinger), and ends with a sword fight - "The Duel" - and in which Faber is triumphant (actually, saved by the girl!) and Ebinger and Faber embrace in a happy ending in a mysterious Senegalese Salon (photo right).

Actors

Erwin Faber

(Professor Moras)Karl Valentin

(Frisiergeselle)Blandine Ebinger

(Frisiermamsell)Max Schreck

(Kunde)Annemarie Hase

(Moras' Geliebte)
And :
Kurt Horwitz
Hans Leibelt
Carola Neher
Liesl Karlstadt
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