Word: janowitz
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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Written by the Czech Hans Janowitz and the Austrian Carl Mayer, the film was the product partly of their own experience (Janowitz' father had gone insane), and it was partly intended as the masque of an attack on the unlimited authority of the German government. But the director, Dr. Robert Wiene, added the first and last sequences, in the institution, so that the movie lost its political meaning, and offers no ending outside the puzzle of appearances...