Pinocchio's Death

Pinocchio's Death (German: Der Tod von Pinocchio, lit The Death of Pinocchio) is a 1926 German live-action/animated silent horror film, directed and co-written by Carlton Andersen with his then girlfriend Martina Emma, it tells the story of a mental patient played by Rudolf Klein-Rogge who thinks he is Geppetto from the story of Pinocchio, and makes wooden figures who come to live via dark magic and kill people while in their sleep.

Writers and scholars have argued the film's main character symbolizes a tyrant who commands an army of souless figures who kill under his command, in a way a prediction of the rising Nazi Party. Other themes of the film include the destabilized contrast between insanity and sanity, the subjective perception of reality, and the duality of human nature.

In the United States, Paramount Pictures released the film in the United States under the title The Killer Woodmen, this would eventually start a relationship between director Andersen and the studio as they would release his next film The House of Wagner (1928) and would co-finance Killers Among Us (1930) before moving to America and becoming a director at the Fleischer Studios.

The second in a thematic trilogy of films directed by Andersen following The Hands of the Ripper (1923) and concluding with Killers Among Us (1930)

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US Home Media

 * 2005 Kino Video DVD (under license from the Fredrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung)
 * 2017 Kino Classics Blu-ray (under license from the Fredrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung)