The Destruction of Mankind

December. 03,1917

Rating：

6.7

Genre：

Horror Science Fiction

Keywords：

Man Versus Machine Artificial

Trailer Synopsis Cast

For a long time the homunculus had to hide from his pursuers. But now he mingles with humanity again and sows discord, strife and murder. One day, when he meets an orphaned girl, he takes her to the shepherd Rudolf's parents. His goal is to pair the two together in order to breed a new human race from them. To this end, he kidnaps her to a deserted island. But the plan fails because Rudolf tries to kill the homunculus after learning his true identity. In revenge, the homunculus destroys the entire island, including the young couple. His hitherto loyal companion Edgar Rodin is so horrified by this deed that he renounces the homunculus and threatens him with death.

Aud Egede-Nissen as o. A.

Olaf Fønss as Homunculus

Theodor Loos as Sven Friedland

Adolf Paul as o. A.

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Reviews

SnoReptilePlenty

1917/12/03

Memorable, crazy movie

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FirstWitch

1917/12/04

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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filippaberry84

1917/12/05

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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Rexanne

1917/12/06

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

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boblipton

1917/12/07

This was originally a super-serial, composed of feature-length episodes, and like Feuillade's LES VAMPIRES, was meant to play not only as a serial, but as a series. However, the only remaining copy of this is a cut-down of all six episodes, about an hour and a quarter in length, held by the George Eastman House and available at the moment for viewing on their website. My thanks to them for making this and several dozen other movies of the Teens and early Twenties more generally available.While the are some great technical strengths to the movie, including some wonderful photography (notice the strong use of framing not by irising, as was still very common at this time, but by using structure and set decoration to change the effective frame size) and toning (a process in which the black silver nitrate is replaced by other compounds with colors, resulting in white whites, black blacks but colors instead of grays) and a good story which asks the question: is the soul born with the body, or the gift of god? Unfortunately, I find the style of acting to be rather over the top, involving a lot of rolling eyes. The net effect is very watchable, but not great.

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