Polizeibericht Überfall
Short Film, DE 1928/29, Schwarzweiß, 23 min.
Diagonale 2015
Director: Ernő Metzner
Script: Ernő Metzner, Grace Chiang
Cast: Heinrich Gotho, Eva Schmid-Kayser, Alfred Loretto, Sybille Schmitz, Kurt Gerron
Camera: Eduard von Borsody
Production: Deutscher Werkfilm
An experimental short related to Weimar cinema’s street films. It makes perfect use of subjective camera and mirror images, “catching the essence of a Freudian nightmare” (Close Up, 1929).