The Artificial Man

1916 · 69 MIN · IMDB 5.8 · 128 VOTES · DIR. Otto Rippert

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Overview

Part of the artificial-creature series encompassing Der Golem (1914 and 1920), Alraune (1918, 1928, 1930) and Metropolis (1926), 'Homunculus' was the most popular serial in Germany during World War I even influencing the dress of fashionable Berlin. Foenss, a Danish star, is the perfect creature manufactured in a laboratory by Kuehne. Having discovered his origins, that he has no 'soul' and is incapable of love, he revenges himself on mankind, instigating revolutions and becoming a monstrous but beautiful tyrant, relentlessly pursued by his creator-father who seeks to rectify his mistake.

Dialogue Timeline — 212 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:28 HOMUNCULUS from Robert Reinert's dramatic poem
00:01:35 and I will never, I repeat, never give in!
00:05:02 was suddenly taken sick.
00:08:36 Ah, disaster, disaster! The little one is dead.
00:12:41 Men talk of love, But what is love?
00:14:14 Why am I so?
00:17:40 How I hate that man who gave me birth
00:18:52 Could you give me a cry, so that I could cry "Mamma, Mamma"?
00:20:33 Prince Desagra, paralyzed for many years.
00:23:52 One day, you gave me a kind word. I will heal him, lead me to him.
00:26:13 He possesses the infernal book.
00:29:53 Thieves!... My book!... Return to me my book!...
00:34:33 Why do you seek me? Are you too with my enemies?
00:40:13 Just one drop of this liquid could destroy a thousand lives at once.
00:42:59 Flee from me, but you are still mine!
00:47:42 I am left alone in the old house.
00:50:54 I Homunculus!
00:54:10 And I for you have lost all!
00:57:11 The people's delegates come to seek justice.
00:59:58 With both gesture and word Homunculus rouses the masses
01:05:45 What do you want, woman? Why do you follow me?
01:08:57 Is it me you seek, madmen?
01:10:01 How many years have passed!...
01:16:02 Subtitles: Corvusalbus

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed212
Dialogue density3.1 lines / min
First line00:00:28
Final line01:16:02

Production Record

DirectorOtto Rippert
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes128