Golem, Caligari, Nosferatu - A Chronicle of German Film Fantasy (hardback) (en Inglés)
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Nightmares and children's stories, fairies, witches and warlocks, giants, dragons and talking animals, golems, living statues, doppelgänger, vanishing shadows and the incarnation of the Devil, Nosferatu, the iconic vampire, epitome of the Spanish Flu that followed WW1, robots, alchemists and mad scientists, occultism and stories of the supernatural, miracle weapons, rockets and spaceships, aliens, zombies and post-apocalyptic fiction.Paul Wegener, Conrad Veidt, Fritz Lang, F. W. Murnau, Paul Leni, Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Udo Kier, Roland Emmerich - these are the names usually associated with the German Cinema of the Fantastic. But there are more-many more.This book is the first attempt to chronicle German film fantasy, year by year: birthdays, dying days, special events and film premieres of fairy tales, animation, science fiction, and horror - from its origin till nowadays.DR. ROLF GIESEN has written 60 books, mostly devoted to animation, VFX, horror, fantasy and science fiction. He lectured in Germany and China and amassed a huge collection of movie artifacts stored at Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin and Filmmuseum Dusseldorf.
