Phantom

Phantom (1922)

Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately infatuated with her.

Date of release
1922-11-13
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (55)
Runtime
1h 59m
Genres
Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Director
F. W. Murnau

Casting

Interesting facts

Phantom is a 1922 German drama film directed by F. W. Murnau, adapted by Thea von Harbou from a novel by Gerhart Hauptmann. It was premiered as part of tributes to Hauptmann on his 60th birthday.

Production

The film was based on the novel Phantom, written by dramatist and novelist Gerhart Hauptmann. The novel was serialised in nine parts in the Berliner Illustrirten Zeitung, with the final version of the novel being written immediately after the draft for the film, and was based on the sequence of scenes in the film treatment.

Main filming took place at the Decla-Bioscop film studios and outdoor set in Neubabelsberg in Potsdam, with additional external scenes shot in the market square in Wrocław (German: Breslau), Lower Silesia, the setting for the story. The film's sets were designed by Hermann Warm and Erich Czerwonski.

The premiere of Phantom took place on 13 November 1922 at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo cinema in Berlin, on the occasion of Hauptmann's 60th birthday. The film was heavily linked to his original novel. Hauptmann has a cameo appearance in the film at the start.

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