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The Head of Janus
0.0
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1h 47m
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1920
Overview
The film was an unauthorized adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but the source material went unrecognized by some of the German media due to changes in the characters' names. Released in 1920, this is one of Murnau's lost films. While the film itself does not survive, the scripts and related production notes do. Because the film is lost, its full length is unknown. Dr. Warren is the Dr. Jekyll character who changes into Mr. O'Connor, a parallel of Mr. Hyde. This transformation is brought about, not by experimentation with chemicals as in Stevenson's original, but through the supernatural agency of a bust of Janus (the Roman god of duality), which Warren purchases in the opening sequence as a gift for his sweetheart, Jane. When she refuses the gift, horrified, Warren is forced to keep the statuette himself.
Cast
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Conrad Veidt
Dr. Warren
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Magnus Stifter
Warrens Freund
![Margarete Schlegel pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FntbTdfFCtbzQHmMmlYk9oXh5QXw.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Margarete Schlegel
Grace
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Willy Kaiser-Heyl
o. A.
![Bela Lugosi pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2Ffwimu7WKcaJXIjaDwYQg42GxUxa.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Bela Lugosi
Warren's Butler
![Margarete Kupfer pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FwIILmuYE6nScZclk9XfJmPCG1Ej.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Margarete Kupfer
o. A.
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Danny Guertler
o. A.
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Gustav Botz
o. A.
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Jaro Fürth
o. A.
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Hans Lanser-Rudolf
o. A.
![Marga Reuter pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Marga Reuter
o. A.
![Lanja Rudolph pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Lanja Rudolph
o. A.
Recommendations
No recommendations for this movie :(