The Artificial Man
1916 · 69 MIN · IMDB 5.8 · 128 VOTES · DIR. Otto Rippert
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
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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
Olaf Fønss
Homunculus
Ernst Ludwig
Prof. Ortmann
Adolf Paul
Dr. Hansen
Albert Paul
Dr. Hansen
Lore Rückert
Tochter Margarete Hansen
Max Ruhbeck
Generalprokurator Steffens
Lia Borré
Tochter des Generalprokurator Steffens
Friedrich Kühne
Edgar Rodin
Theodor Loos
Sven Friedland
Mechthildis Thein
Margot
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed212
Dialogue density3.1 lines / min
First line00:00:28
Final line01:16:02
Production Record
DirectorOtto Rippert
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes128