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Waxworks ()

Das Wachsfigurenkabinett (original title)
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A wax museum hires a writer to give the sculptures stories. The writer imagines himself and the museum owner's daughter in the stories.

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Harun al Raschid
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Ivan the Terrible
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Jack the Ripper / Spring-Heeled Jack
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The Poet / Assad the Baker / A Russian Prince (as Wilhelm Dieterle)
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Olga Belajeff ...
Eva-Maimune-Eine Bojarin
Paul Biensfeldt ...
Grand Vizier
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Inhaber der Panoptikums
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Prisoner
Ernst Legal ...
Poison-Maker of the Czar

Directed by

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Leo Birinsky
Paul Leni

Written by

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Henrik Galeen ... ()

Produced by

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Leo Birinsky ... producer
Alexander Kwartiroff ... producer

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Jan Kohl ... (2019)
Olav Lervik ... (2019)
Bernd Schultheis ... (2019)

Cinematography by

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Helmar Lerski

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Paul Leni

Costume Design by

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Ernst Stern

Production Management

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Artur Kiekebusch-Brenken ... production manager

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William Dieterle ... assistant director

Art Department

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Paul Dannenberg ... props
Alfred Junge ... assistant art director
Fritz Maurischat ... assistant art director

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Hans Lechner ... still photographer

Music Department

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Steffen Ahrens ... electric guitar
Michael Bölter ... music coordinator
Bruce Collings ... trombone
Benjamin Kobler ... synthesizer
Ulrich Löffler ... synthesizer
Michele Marelli ... clarinet
Jon Mirsalis ... music performer: 1996 alternate version (as Jon C. Mirsalis)
Axel Porath ... viola
Dirk Rothburst ... percussion
Stephan Schmidt ... music recordist
Elena Schwarz ... conductor

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Plot Summary

The owner of a Waxmuseum needs for three of his models stories to be told to the audience. For that reason he has hired a writer, who after one look at the owner's pretty daughter, starts writing stories featuring the models, the daughter and himself. In the first, he is a baker, married to the girl, who is a little bit too much flirting with the customers, among them the wezir of sultan Harun Al-Rashid, who has just ordered his execution because the smell from the bakery is drifting to his palace, yet Harun Al-Rashid wants to meet the beautiful girl himself, while an angry baker is trying to get the Sultan's whishing ring to proof he's not a weakling... The second story is about Tzar Ivan the Terrible who likes watching people die together with his court-chemist. When he orders the execution of the chemist, the chemist thinks of a nice revanche, but till the revanche works, a nobleman is murdered, his daughter kidnapped by Ivan and her groom tortured. While writing the third story about Jack the Ripper, he falls asleep and dreams he and the girl are pursued by that serial killer. Written by Stephan Eichenberg

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Also Known As
  • Jack the Ripper (World-wide, English title)
  • The Caliph of Baghdad (World-wide, English title)
  • Ivan the Terrible (World-wide, English title)
  • Waxworks (Canada, English title)
  • Caliph of Baghdad (World-wide, English title)
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  • 107 min
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Trivia Originally there were four episodes planned, but for the fourth, "Rinaldo Rinaldini," there wasn't any money left. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Kingdom of Shadows (1998). See more »

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