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Auction History Result DER HERR DER WELT German '34  Lease from Hershenson/Allen ArchiveAn Original Vintage German Movie Poster (Learn More) Der Herr der Welt (literally translates to "Master of the World"), the 1934 Harry Piel German science fiction (sci-fi) robots-gone-wild thriller (about a mad assistant to a scientist who develops a robot which includes a death ray, and the robot kills the scientist, and the assistant makes thousands more robots, which are intended to take over the drudgery jobs, but which are soon killing massive numbers of people!) starring Walter Janssen, Sybille Schmitz, Aribert Wascher, Siegfried Scurenberg, Willy Schur, and Gustav Puttjer. Note that this movie was one of the first movies to feature robots, and it does so in a "Frankenstein of steel" kind of way, which is surprising, because Germany at this time was extremely favorable towards modern technology, which this movie was actively opposing! Note that this mostly forgotten important early German sci-fi movie is well known to many poster collectors, because legendary pioneer poster collector Steve Schapiro included an example of the original German poster in his classic book, "The Movie Poster Book", from 1979. The movie was apparently released in the U.S., but we have never seen any movie paper from that release, and original posters of any sort from this movie are extremely rare! Note that director Harry Piel was a major figure in early cinema. He wrote and directed his first movie when he was just 20 years old in 1912, and he made several movies over the next three years, and then began acting in them as well! He made many movies over the next decades. In 1933, he joined the Nazi party and made movies for them. At the end of World War II, he was sentenced to 6 months in jail and banned from the film industry for 5 years. In 1950, he started a new film company, but did not have much success, and he retired in 1953 and passed away in 1961. Unfortunately, almost all the negatives of his silent films were destroyed when Germany was bombed during World War II, so few of his films survive, and that, combined with his Nazi collaboration, has caused him to be largely forgotten, except by major film buffs. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: A.M. Cay 
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