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Der Januskopf (1920)
The film was an unauthorized adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but the source material went unrecognized by some of the German media due to changes in the characters' names. Released in 1920, this is one of Murnau's lost films. While the film itself does not survive, the scripts and related production notes do. Because the film is lost, its full length is unknown. Dr. Warren is the Dr. Jekyll character who changes into Mr. O'Connor, a parallel of Mr. Hyde. This transformation is brought about, not by experimentation with chemicals as in Stevenson's original, but through the supernatural agency of a bust of Janus (the Roman god of the doorway), which Warren / O'Connor purchases in the opening sequence as a gift for his sweetheart, Jane. When she refuses the gift, horrified, Warren / O'Connor is forced to keep the statuette himself...
Updated May 9 2020
Cast
Conrad Veidt
Dr. Warren
Gustav Botz
o. A.
Margarete Kupfer
o. A.
Magnus Stifter
Warrens Freund
Margarete Schlegel
Grace
Willy Kaiser-Heyl
o. A.
Danny Guertler
o. A.
More Cast
Crew
Erich Pommer
Producer
Karl Freund
Director of Photography
Hans Janowitz
Screenplay
F.W. Murnau
Director
Carl Hoffmann
Director of Photography
Robert Louis Stevenson
Novel
Carl Weiss
Director of Photography
