The Head of Janus

The Head of Janus (1920)


  • Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
  • Release Date: 1920-08-26
  • Runtime: 1h 47min
  • Language: Deutsch
  • Production Company: Lipow-Film
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Director: F. W. Murnau

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Summary

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 duality), which Warren purchases in the opening sequence as a gift for his sweetheart, Jane. When she refuses the gift, horrified, Warren is forced to keep the statuette himself.

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  • Conrad Veidt

    as Dr. Warren
  • Magnus Stifter

    as Warrens Freund
  • Margarete Schlegel

    as Grace
  • Willy Kaiser-Heyl

    as o. A.
  • Bela Lugosi

    as Warren's Butler
  • Margarete Kupfer

    as o. A.
  • Danny Guertler

    as o. A.
  • Gustav Botz

    as o. A.
  • Jaro Fürth

    as o. A.
  • Hans Lanser-Rudolf

    as o. A.
  • Marga Reuter

    as o. A.
  • Lanja Rudolph

    as o. A.
Production Erich Pommer Producer
Camera Karl Freund Director of Photography
Writing Hans Janowitz Screenplay
Directing F. W. Murnau Director
Camera Carl Hoffmann Director of Photography
Writing Robert Louis Stevenson Novel
Camera Carl Weiss Director of Photography
Art Heinrich Richter Set Designer