Master of the World (1934)
Douban
世界之主
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Der Herr der Welt
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Der Herrscher der Welt
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O Senhor do Mundo
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O kyriarhos tis Gis
director:
Harry Piel
playwright:
Georg Mühlen-Schulte
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Harry Piel
actor:
沃尔特·扬森
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西比·施米茨
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Walter Franck
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Aribert Wäscher
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Siegfried Schürenberg
genre:
Sci-Fi
region:
Germany
language:
German
length: 1h 30m
release date: 1934-08-11
IMDb: tt0025244
Der Herr der Welt
overview
The Master of the World (German: Der Herr der Welt) is a German science fiction movie made in 1934 (released in the US in 1935). Its themes are the replacement of human labor with robotic replacements, and the threat to humanity by robots used as war machines. It was directed by Harry Piel and made by Ariel production.
Walter Franck, playing "Wolf", as the half-crazy assistant to Walter Hanssen's "Dr. Heller", an inventor of robots, murders his master, and attempts to take over the world with his death-ray equipped robots.