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Homunculus, the 1916 Otto Rippert German silent science fiction (sci-fi) horror serial starring Olaf Fonss (in the title role as the Homunculus), Ernst Ludwig, Adolf Paul, Albert Paul, and Lore Ruckert. Note that the plot of this movie is very similar to that of The Golem (first made in 1914, and remade in 1920), which was itself based on ancient Jewish legends. It concerns a scientist who creates a "perfect" artificial human being, but when it discovers that it has no soul (because it was created by man and not God), it seeks vengeance on the entire human race, and his creator is the only one who can possibly stop him. Note that this is not a serial in the conventional sense. It was a series of six feature-length movies, which could be shown together in groups or individually. Sadly, the only thing that survives from the six feature-length movies is a cut down compilation version showing parts of all six. Original vintage movie paper of any kind from any of these six movies is beyond rare! Note that Olaf Fonss was a Danish actor/director/writer from the 1910s to the 1930s. He is only known by film buffs today, but he is one of the most important Danish actors ever! He was born in 1882 and started acting on the stage from 1902, but when movies started, he embraced them completely. He was the star of many very early Danish movies, and in 1913, he starred in "Atlantis", which was nearly two hours long, and it was an incredibly ambitious movie! It had a husband with a mentally ill wife, and he has an affair with a ballet dancer, and he takes her on a ship, which sinks in Titanic fashion (which had occurred the year before). He travels the world and has affair after affair, and there are scenes in downtown Manhattan in New York (likely some of the earliest scenes in a movie) and there is a sequence with a sideshow performer with no arms. There is even a "dream sequence" where he imagines he is in the lost underwater city of Atlantis. The movie was made with two endings, one "happy", and one "sad" (for its Russian release). In 1915, Fonss went to Germany to make movies, and in 1916, he starred in this movie. He soon after returned to Denmark and was a major figure in Danish cinema throughout the 1920s. At the end of the 1920s, he retired from acting in movies, but he directed some movies and he was the President of the Danish Actor's Union from 1933 to 1947, and he also was politically active. Someday, someone will make a biography of this forgotten giant of early cinema!
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Important Added Info: Note that we previously auctioned one German postcard from this 1916 German horror movie. It was the first movie paper item we had ever seen from this movie (the postcard was actually used and mailed, with a message on the back), and it auctioned for $68. Now we have been consigned 13 similar postcards from this movie (there is one that has the same image as the one we earlier auctioned, and the other twelve have different images). All have postcard printing on the back and most have a penciled number on the back of the top right. One was actually stamped and mailed, and five others have a German name or words written on the back. We have pictured the back of one of the cards with that German writing. This is a wonderful opportunity to obtain 13 different postcards from this most rare movie!

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