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Das Wachsfigurenkabinett is een Duitse expressionistische film uit 1924 onder regie van Paul Leni.

Il film è noto anche con il titolo Tre amori fantastici.

Il gabinetto delle figure di cera (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) è un film del 1924 diretto dal regista tedesco Paul Leni.

Some references list German screenwriter/producer Leo Birinski as a co-director, co-producer and editor of the film. Leni died of blood poisoning on 2 September 1929 at age 44. The 1924 silent film supposedly inspired a 1988 "remake" of sorts, Waxwork, but "any similarity between the two ends there." This film would be director Paul Leni's last film made in Germany before he went on to make The Cat and the Canary (1927) in the United States. The film was also known as Three Wax Men. Critic Troy Howarth mentions "Of all the later horror anthologies, it seems to have had the most direct effect on Amicus' Torture Garden (1968), which reused the waxworks motif". The film's format may have influenced later horror anthologies such as the British Dead of Night (1945) and the Italian Black Sabbath (1963) by Mario Bava.

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Its stories are linked by a plot thread about a writer (William Dieterle) who accepts a job from a waxworks proprietor to write a series of stories about the exhibits of Caliph of Baghdad (Emil Jannings), Ivan the Terrible (Conrad Veidt) and Jack the Ripper (Werner Krauss) in order to boost business. The film encompasses several genres, including a fantasy adventure, a historical film, and a horror film through its various episodes.

Waxworks (German: Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) is a 1924 German silent anthology film directed by Paul Leni.Le Cabinet des figures de cire (titre original : Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) est un film fantastique de l'expressionnisme allemand en noir et blanc de 1924 réalisé par Paul Leni et Leo Birinsky.La filmo estis la lasta verko de Paul Leni antaŭ lia elmigro al Usono, kie li poste filmis The Cat and the Canary (1927). Kvankam Das Wachsfigurenkabinett estas plejofte rigardata kiel horora filmo, ĝi fakte estas tre diversa kaj multĝenra, kaj enhavas ekzemple partojn de fantazia aventuro kaj historia dokumento. La filmo temas pri verkisto, kiu akceptas postenon proponitan de la proprietulo de vaksmuzeo : li verku serion da artikoloj pri la ekspozicioj de la kalifo de Bagdado (Emil Jannings), Ivano la Terura kaj Ĵakvo la Buĉisto (Werner Krauss) en la muzeo, cele al pli multaj vizitantoj. Das Wachsfigurenkabinett (esperante "La vaksfigur-kabineto") estas fantazia kaj horora muta filmo aperinta en 1924 kaj reĝisorita de Paul Leni.Nosferatu und Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam). Das Drehbuch verfasste der Autor einiger der berühmtesten Filme des deutschen Expressionismus, Henrik Galeen (u. Das Wachsfigurenkabinett ist ein deutscher Spielfilm von Paul Leni aus dem Jahr 1924.