The haunted castle
Subtitle: the exposure of a secret : in 5 acts
By: Kino International ; Transit Film ; Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung ; Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv ; Decla-Bioscop ; Uco-film ; based on the story by Rudolf Stratz ; adapted by Carl Mayer ; produced by Erich Pommer ; directed by R.W. Murnau
Contributors: Kyser-Korff, Lulu, actor; Korff, Arnold, actor; Mehnert, Lothar, 1875-1926, actor; Transit Film; Decla-Bioscop (Firm); Uco-Film (Firm); Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv; Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung; Kino International Corporation
Edition: Restored authorized ed.
Series: Murnau (Kino)
Publisher: Kino International; Worldwide distribution by Transit Film GmbH
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York; [Germany]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 81
Subjects: Drama; Haunted castles; Murder; Aristocracy (Social class)
Other titles: F.W. Murnau's The haunted castle; Exposure of a secret; Schlo Vogelöd; Schloss Vogelöd (Motion picture). English.
Description: A hunting party is interrupted by the arrival of a notorious count, who is believed to have murdered his brother. The uninvited guest sets in motion an elaborate plot to resurrect the ghosts of the past and bring secrets of his brother's death to light.
Notes: Released in 2009 as part of the 6 DVD set Murnau, by Kino International.

A foreign film (Germany)

Originally released as a motion picture in 1921.

"The text of the intertitles was derived from extant "flash titles," supplemented with surviving scripts and a title list prepared by the production company Decla-Bioscop on March 13, 1921." - Opening titles.

Reconstructed in 2002 from an original negative from the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin, and a nitrate print with Portuguese intertitles from the Fundacao Cinemateca Brasileira.

Photographed by Fritz A. Wagner, László Schäffer ; music, Neil Brandt ; sound, Andreas Radzuweit.

Arnold Korff, L. Kyser-Korff, Lothar Mehnert, Paul Hartmann, Paul Bildt.

DVD, NTSC.

Silent film with English intertitles.
Table of contents: title: Special features: Excerpts of Rudolf Stratz's novel ; Set designs by Robert Herlth ; Image gallery .