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{{Infobox film | name = Somnambul | image = Somnambul 1929.jpg | caption = | director = [[Adolf Trotz]] | producer = [[Leo Meyer (producer)|Leo Meyer]] | writer = [[Herbert Juttke]] <br> [[Georg C. Klaren]] | starring = [[Fritz Kortner]] <br> [[Erna Morena]] <br> [[Veit Harlan]] <br> [[Jaro Fürth]] | music = | editing = | cinematography = [[Robert Lach]] | studio = Essem-Film | distributor = Vereinigte Star-Film | released = {{Film date|1929|02|07|df=yes}} | runtime = | country = Germany | language = Silent <br> German [[intertitles]] | budget = | gross = }} '''''Somnambul''''' is a 1929 [[Cinema of Germany|German]] [[silent film|silent]] [[horror film]] directed by [[Adolf Trotz]] and starring [[Fritz Kortner]], [[Erna Morena]] and [[Veit Harlan]]. The film is set against the backdrop of [[Spiritualism (movement)|spiritualism]].<ref>Prawer p.88-89</ref> The Berlin [[clairvoyant]] [[Elsbeth Guenther-Geffers]] appeared in the film.<ref>Noack p.49</ref> The film's [[art director]] was [[August Rinaldi]].

==Cast== * [[Fritz Kortner]] as Fabrikant Bingen * [[Erna Morena]] as Helga, seine Frau * [[Veit Harlan]] as Kurt Bingen, beider Sohn * [[Jaro Fürth]] as Dr. Höchster * [[Eva von Berne]] as Amélie, seine Tochter * [[Fritz Kampers]] as Maxe, eine zweifelhafte Existenz * [[Uly Boutry]] as Myra, das Medium * [[Julius Falkenstein]] as Spinelli, der Hypnotiseur * [[Elsbeth Guenther-Geffers]] as Die Hellseherin * [[Georg John]] as Der Wirt

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Noack, Frank. ''Veit Harlan: The Life and Work of a Nazi Filmmaker''. University Press of Kentucky, 2016. * Prawer, S.S. ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933''. Berghahn Books, 2005. {{ISBN|978-1-84545-074-8}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0020430}}

{{Adolf Trotz}}

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