Six centuries of skull-cursed doom from 1920s Germany — silent cinema's most ambitious ghost story.
A pharaonic tragedy to the content that spans six different eras. In the first episode, the emergence and dramatic end of the love story between the pharaoh's daughter Princess Amnertis and her beloved Tirhaka is told until the latter comes to a violent death. From this drama arises a curse, which in the following episodes has had far-reaching effects over the centuries. Everyone who possesses the skull of the long-lost pharaoh's daughter must die violently until the day the skull is sunk in the sea.
Production
Six distinct historical eras designed for one 77-minute fever dream.
Acting
Emil Jannings before Hollywood — already commanding the frame.
Director
Otz Tollen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director 'Otz Tollen' is widely believed to be a pseudonym, possibly for distributor purposes — the true auteur remains silent cinema's ghost.
This six-episode structure directly influenced the 1921 Das indische Grabmal, cementing Germany's obsession with exotic curse anthologies before Universal's monster cycle.
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