A cigarette case ruins everything in 21 minutes of pure Weimar dread.
A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.
Direction
Metzner's geometric framing predicts film noir a decade early.
Cinematography
Expressionist shadows on Berlin streets—pure visual anxiety.
Director
Ernö Metzner
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