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The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin is a american film of genre War directed by Rupert Julian with Lon Chaney

The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin (1918)

The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin
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Length 1h10
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OriginUSA
Genres War,    Historical
Rating56% 2.847132.847132.847132.847132.84713

The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin (also known as The Beast of Berlin and The Kaiser) was a 1918 silent war propaganda melodrama film written, directed and starring Rupert Julian. The film's supporting cast included Elmo Lincoln, Nigel De Brulier and Lon Chaney.

The germanophobic film contains a propagandist view of the First World War, showing the political greed of the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, the resistance of some of his own soldiers, and fanciful prediction of the nature of the war's end. The film is now considered lost.

Synopsis

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Hohenzollern (Rupert Julian) is a vain and arrogant tyrant eager for conquest. When Belgium is invaded by the German army during World War I, Marcas, the blacksmith (Elmo Lincoln), although wounded, is able to save his daughter from the clutches of a German soldier. Soon after this, the RMS Lusitania is sunk by Captain von Neigle (Nigel De Brulier), who ultimately is driven mad with remorse. After the United States declares war, the Allied generals turn the Kaiser over to Albert I of Belgium. Incarcerated, the Kaiser faces his jailer, Marcas the blacksmith.

Actors

Lon Chaney

(Bethmann-Hollweg)Rupert Julian

(The Kaiser)Elmo Lincoln

(Marcas, the Blacksmith)Nigel De Brulier

(Capt. von Neigle)Harry von Meter

(Capt. von Hancke)
And :
Harry Carter
Joseph W. Girard
Alfred Allen
Henry Arthur Barrows
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