- The Harun al-Rashid episode imagines Baghdad's caliph as a capricious despot who demands a baker's beheading over a lost chess game, then sneaks out by night to seduce that same baker's wife, the Orient rendered as arbitrary tyranny, coveted wives, and magic rings.
Waxworks (1924)
film · 1924 film by Paul Leni, Leo Birinski
- Directors
- Paul Leni, Leo Birinski
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- German
- Distributor
- UFA
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Genres
- silent film, fantasy film, horror film, anthology film
- Cast
- Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Emil Jannings, William Dieterle