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Master of the World is a film of genre Science fiction directed by Harry Piel released in USA on 15 december 1935 with Walter Janssen
Master of the World (1934)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 15 december 1935
Length 1h30
Directed by Harry Piel
Genres Science fiction
Themes Robot films
Rating62%
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 ethical replacement of human labor by robots, and the threat to humanity by robots used as war machines. It was directed by Harry Piel and made by Ariel production.
Synopsis
Wolf, as the half-crazy assistant to Dr. Heller, an inventor of robots, murders his master, and attempts to take over the world with his death-ray equipped robots. He then proceeds to borrow industrial robots all over the world for high fees. "Baumann", a mining engineer and friend of Dr. Heller, then visits Wolf in his entranched laboratory of Heller's company and learns about his plan. Having witnessed the despair of his co-workers who lost their jobs due to being replaced by robots he explains to Wolf that the people will revolt when they lose their jobs en masse. Wolf however wants to crush down any revolts using his war machines and reach for world domination. He is then prevented from attaining this goal by Baumann and Dr. Heller's widow, as he gets killed by his own invention.Actors
Walter Janssen
(Dr. Heller)
Sybille Schmitz
(Vilma, seine Frau)
Willi Schur
(Karl Schumacher, Steiger)
Walter Franck
(Prof. Wolf)
Aribert Wäscher
(Geheimrat Ehrenberg)
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