Edgar ulmer biography wife

Links : History of Cinema Best films of all time Links to other sites. If English is your first language and you could translate my old Italian text, please contact me. He mainly directed exotic and sci-fi movies, but not only. His second film was the musical Mr Broadway , followed by the melodrama Damaged Lives Black Cat , a combination of Edgar Allan Poe's horror and German expressionism, pitches two evil souls against each other until they annihilate each other.

Their hatred is unstoppable and their evil is limitless. The witnesses are two ordinary naive people on a honeymoon. American writer Peter and his wife Joan are enjoying their honeymoon in Hungary. A car accident leaves them stranded in the middle of nowhere, but it turns out Vitus' "friend" Hjalmar lives nearby, in a modernist house.

The woman is slightly injured, so they honeymooners decided to stay at the weird house. Unbeknownst to them, Vitus confronts Hjalmar: Hjalmar's house sits on the graveyward of a massacre, and Hjalmar was a war criminal. Vitus was one of the prisoners. His wife and daughter were kidnapped by Hjalmar and never returned.

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The writer senses that something weird is going on. At night, Hjalmar shows Vitus what happened to his wife: she died two years after the war and is now preserved like a mummy in a glass cage. Vitus tries to shoot Hjalmar, but a black cat saves the life of Hjalmar. Hjalmar calmly shows him back to his bedroom.