Hermann Warm

Nascimento : 1889-01-01,

Morte : 1976-01-01

História

Hermann Warm was a German art director for films. Born in 1889 (died 1976) in Berlin, Germany, Warm was an important figure in the expressionist movement of the 1920s. Warm entered the German film industry in 1912 after working on-stage for a while. As well as doing set work on films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Fritz Lang's Destiny, Warm also worked with Danish film director Carl Theodor Dreyer on films including The Passion of Joan of Arc and Vampyr. During World War II, Warm lived in Switzerland and returned to Germany in 1947.

Filmes

The Ambassadress
Production Design
She Walks by Night
Production Design
Based on an actual post-war murder in Frankfurt, this standard docudrama by Rudolf Jugert is a serious treatment of the story as compared to the earlier, satirical film The Girl Rosemarie. The history of the case of Rosemarie, a hooker, and how she came to be strangled in her apartment is not completely clear. One of the suspects in the case was first charged, later acquitted, but never really free of an aura of culpability. British actress Belinda Lee plays the title role with her voice dubbed over in German.
The Head
Production Design
A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head and, using the serum, keeps the doctor's head alive and forces it to help him on an experiment to give his hunchbacked nurse assistant a new body.
Arms and the Man
Production Design
1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right into the bedroom of his enemy's fiancée.
Theft of the Sabines
Production Design
Hokuspokus
Production Design
Tragödie einer Leidenschaft
Art Direction
When she was a little girl, Liuba came to town with her widowed mother to live in the block of flats owned by her aunt Anna Iwanowna. The wealthy and cold-hearted Anna Iwanowna barely accepted them as tenants. And no sooner did Liuba's mother die than she wanted to send her niece to the orphanage. Fortunately, Pawlin, Anna Iwanowna's janitor, decided to adopt her and he brought her up with affection. When she grew up, the beautiful Liuba fell in love with her aunt's son, Dodja, a good-looking but profligate army officer. Wishing nothing more than an affair with Liuba, Dodja did not hesitate to play the comedy of love to her. When she realized what Dodja was really after, Liuba was devastated and in desperation accepted to marry Pawlin, her benefactor, who had been infatuated with her for years. Alas, in the middle of the wedding party Dodja danced with Liuba and eloped with her
Morituri
Production Design
As the end of the Second World War approaches and the Soviet Red Army is advancing, a group of concentration camp inmates is helped to escape by a Polish doctor. They hide in a wood where they meet other fugitives, who have been there for months, constantly in fear of being discovered. Out of fear of the German army patrols, they do not dare to leave the forest, even as the food supplies run low.
Wozzeck
Art Direction
While an anatomy seminar prepares to examine the cadaver of Franz Wozzeck in the name of scientific progress, medical student Büchner excoriates humanity for having allowed Wozzeck’s fate. The tragic story unfolds in flashbacks, as Büchner narrates.
Covered Tracks
Construction Manager
Séraphine and her mother arrive in Paris to visit the 1867 World Exhibition. In an overcrowded city they must be accommodated in separate hotels. During the night the mother, who wasn't feeling very well, gets suddenly worse. When next morning Séraphine goes to meet her every trace of her presence has disappeared and everybody denies having ever met her. The bewildered young woman must find someone who believes her. Previous version of So Long at the Fair (1950).
Gefährliches Spiel
Production Design
The formerly wealthy Baron Carl Erich von Wenden is desperate. His debts are out of control and he is forced to give up everything he owns. Since he doesn’t want to burden his daughter Rosy with all of this, he tells her he’ll take a pleasure trip with her … in truth, however, he has to work as an assistant waiter in the evenings, while Rosy stays in the hotel. He constantly fears his daughter will discover the truth; and this is a shame he cannot bear.
Mazurka
Art Direction
A woman is put on trial for murdering a musician who ruined her marriage.
If I Were King
Art Direction
O Vampiro
Art Direction
A história gira em torno de Allan Grey, um jovem interessado pelo sobrenatural, que um dia recebe a visita de um estranho senhor. Ao segui-lo, Allan descobre que Léone, uma das filhas deste senhor, está cada vez mais doente. Ao ler um livro que o senhor lhe deu antes de morrer, Allan descobre que Léone é vítima de uma vampira, que é ajudada pelo doutor da vila em sua busca por alimento. Allan parte com um dos servos do senhor para destruir a vampira.
Stamboul
Production Design
In the lead-up to the First World War, a French military attaché falls in love with the wife of a prominent German in Stamboul in the Ottoman Empire
Dreyfus
Art Direction
In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accused of espionage. Found guilty of treason he is drummed out of the army and sent to prison on Devil's Island.
A Knight in London
Art Direction
A prince makes a socialite think she spent the night in his room.
Love
Art Direction
Based on Honore de Balzac’s story of Madame de Langeais. Costume drama about the infamous loves of the countess.
O Martírio de Joana D'Arc
Art Direction
França, século XV, Joana de Domrémy, filha do povo, resiste bravamente a ocupação de seu país. É presa, humilhada, torturada e interrogada de maneira impiedosa por um tribunal eclesiástico, que a levou, involuntariamente, a blasfemar.
The Flight in the Night
Art Direction
Based on the play Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello. Conrad Veidt plays Count di Nolli, a nobleman who, after a head injury, imagines he is the medieval emperor. His friends and relatives choose to play along, dressing up as medieval courtiers, but is di Nolli truly mad, or just pretending? The art direction was by Hermann Warm. It was shot on location in Italy. 6 acts, 1856 meters.
The Merchant of Venice
Art Direction
The film "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by Peter Paul Felner in the silent year of 1923 and is a free adaptation of "Merchant of Venice" written by Herr William Shakespeare. It is an elegant and expensive German film production that was shot on location in beautiful and decadent Venice with some of the most important Teutonic actors of the time: Henny Porten, Harry Liedtke und Werner Krauss and even the mysterious Max Schreck.
Rivalen
Art Direction
Power-crazed scientist Professor Ravello desires Evelyn. He also has a marauding robot. In comes our hero, Harry.
Zirkus des Lebens
Art Direction
A Morte Cansada
Art Direction
Uma mulher do século 19 barganha com a Morte pelo seu amante, apanhado pelo Destino.
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 4. Teil: Die Goldmine von Sar-Khin
Art Direction
Malatti's father has unexpectedly survived the fall from the train and now vows to take cruel revenge on McAllan. In Lhasa, the old capital of Tibet, seat of the Dalai Lama and at the same time a "forbidden city" for all foreigners, there is another dramatic encounter between the engineer and Badhama. In a dark dungeon, he thinks he recognizes McAllan and tries to stab the man he holds responsible for all the misfortune. He does not realize who he is stabbing, killing his own daughter in the process. The Dalai Lama's servants arrest Badhama and throw him in the dungeon. Malatti's father is sentenced to death, while McAllan sees the light of day again and is released.
O Castelo Vogelöd
Art Direction
No castelo Vogelöd, alguns aristocratas esperam a baronesa Safferstätt. Mas o primeiro conde Oestch chega sem ser convidado. Todos pensam que ele assassinou o próprio irmão três anos antes, o primeiro marido da baronesa. Isso torna a sua presença no castelo bastante indesejável.
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
Art Direction
The old man and McAllan then got into a physical altercation on the roof of a train that was moving at full speed, in which Malatti's father fell. McAllan assumes that his adversary died in the process. When a gang of rogue robbers board the train, McAllan's life doesn't seem worth a damn anymore. But then, almost out of nowhere, his faithful servant Lubzang appears and saves his master's life at the last moment. Malatti, also on board, falls into the clutches of the gang and is sent to Tibet by the sinister fellowsabducted to be offered as a sacrifice to the goddess Bhawani. However, a kind-hearted member of the gang of robbers takes pity on her and helps the exotic beauty to escape. A little later, Malatti meets Lubzang, who has meanwhile broken away from his master McAllan. He takes her with him.
Das Blut der Ahnen
Production Design
The Mayor of Zalamea
Art Direction
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
Art Direction
In Calcutta, McAllan meets the beautiful Indian woman Malatti, with whom he immediately falls in love. The engineer quickly neglects his professional obligations and follows her. After some complications, the two of them finally get closer at her home, even if Malatti's father Badhama rejects this connection. Badhama only agrees to the planned marriage when he learns how wealthy this white man must be. After some time, McAllan returns to his large construction site, where things are going haywire. Many workers die in an explosion, and McAllan is now liable with his fortune. As a result, the engineer, who became impoverished overnight, suddenly becomes uninteresting for Malatti's father as a son-in-law, especially since with a solvent Japanese man who offers a lot of money for his daughter's hand,
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
Production Design
The American engineer McAllan is appointed site manager for a major project in Asia. He is to oversee the branch line of the railway line from Calcutta to Beijing. One day, the railway company in question called him to Calcutta for an interview: they were planning to stop running the branch line for cost reasons. However, McAllan is passionate about the project and uses all his powers of persuasion not to just call off construction. In fact, the construction work will continue, and the engineer is even willing to vouch for it with his private fortune.
O Gabinete do Dr. Caligari
Set Decoration
Num pequeno vilarejo da fronteira holandesa, o misterioso hipnotizador Dr. Caligari (Krauss) chega acompanhado do sonâmbulo Cesare (Veidit), que estaria supostamente adormecido por 23 anos. À noite, Cesare perambula pela cidade concretizando as previsões funestas do seu mestre, o Dr. Caligari.
O Gabinete do Dr. Caligari
Production Design
Num pequeno vilarejo da fronteira holandesa, o misterioso hipnotizador Dr. Caligari (Krauss) chega acompanhado do sonâmbulo Cesare (Veidit), que estaria supostamente adormecido por 23 anos. À noite, Cesare perambula pela cidade concretizando as previsões funestas do seu mestre, o Dr. Caligari.
The Dance of Death
Production Design
In this apparently lost film, a beautiful dancer's sexual allure is used by an evil cripple to entice men to their deaths. Falling in love with one of the potential victims, she is told by the cripple that he will set her free if her lover, actually a murderer himself, survives and escapes a bizarre labyrinthe which runs beneath the cripple's house.
The Plague in Florence
Art Direction
Suddenly appearing in Florence, an evil seductress causes Cesare, the city's ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. The son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the city's churches into dens of sexual debauchery. Acts of evil and corruption continue unabated until the arrival of Death, who brings with her a horrible plague which she is about to loose upon the city.
The Spiders - The Golden Sea
Production Design
In San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The map tells of a lost Incan civilization that possesses an immense treasure. Hoog immediately plans an expedition to find it. But Lio Sha, the head of a criminal organization known as the Spiders, is determined to get the treasure for herself and plans a rival expedition.
Die Insel der Glücklichen
Production Design
The daughter of a revolutionary runs away with a married prince.
Die blaue Mauritius
Art Direction
Der Volontär
Production Design
The Tunnel
Production Design
Max Allan, a visionary engineer persuades investors to fund building an undersea railway connecting France to the United States. But there are powerful forces who wants to stop his futuristic dream.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Production Design
In this early version the classic "Hound of the Baskervilles" mystery is faithfully adapted, although Watson's character is absent. Holmes' foe is called Stapleton and he menaces Holmes' client Lord Henry and his fiancée, Laura Lyons.
Die Millionenmine
Art Direction
Die blaue Maus
Production Design
Der letzte Tag
Production Design
Where Is Coletti?
Art Direction
Jean Coletti, a popular police detective, criticized for not using the press to help catch criminals, wages 100.000 marks that he can lose himself in Berlin for forty-eight hours without being caught.