The Haunted Castle (1921 film)

The Haunted Castle 1921, also known as Schlo Vogeld and Castle Vogeloed, is a silent chamberdrama directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.

The widow of the brother, the remarried Baroness Saffersttt, is also expected which makes the situation unpleasant for the host. Count Oetsch neclects this matter and remains. The Baroness is affrighted by their coming and determined to depart again. The report of the coming of Father Faramund, allied with her former husband, is kept back by her she will make confession unto him.In the following days, Oetsch and the Baroness and the Baron accuse one another of the murder of the brother of the Count. At the same time, in flashbacks, follows a confession in stages of the Baroness, that her marriage was anything but harmonious. Her husband became more and more interested in spiritual things than in her, so that she, in the presence of Baron Saffersttt, a friend of her husband, had wished for something evil which in turn had falsely interpreted it and thereafter shot her husband. This common trespass had finally let her and the Baron be married, without something else to feel for each other than emptiness. ........

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