HOMUNCULUS

HOMUNCULUS
(vt Homunculus der Fuhrer) Serial film (1916). Deutsche Bioscop. Dir Otto Rippert, starring Olaf Fonss, Friedrich Kuhne. Script Otto and Robert Neuss, based on a story by Robert Reinert. 6 episodes; total length 401 mins. B/w.
   This 6-part silent German serial, the most popular of the WWI period, tells of an artificial man created by a scientist (Kuhne) who wants to make a perfect creature of pure reason. But the result, Homunculus (the Danish actor Fonss), resents the fact that he is not areal human being (and has no soul); after being driven from country to country he becomes the dictator of a large, unnamed nation and plans to conquer the world, being finally destroyed by a convenient bolt of lightning. H contains seminal themes of the GOTHIC variety, foreshadowing many sf/ HORROR films: the archetypal mad SCIENTIST, the inherent evil of TECHNOLOGY and scientific progress, superhuman ANDROIDS, conquest of theworld and a fiery, apocalyptic climax.
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