"Professor Gesellius Eduard von Winterstein" "Maria, his woman" " Hanna Ralph" "Nung-Chiang" " Werner Krauss" "Sin, later Magdalena" " Sybill Morel" "Dr. Armstrong" " Friedrich Kühne" "Dr. Richard Armstrong, his son Conrad Veidt" "Alí" " Alexander Delbosq" "The opium girl" " Sigrid Hohenfels" "Writer and director:" "Robert Reinert" "Cameraman:" "Helmar Lerski" "OPIUM - 1st ACT" "Opium, strangest of all poisons, benefactor of sufferers of illness and pain both benevolent and terrible!" "Woe to those who succumb to it ..." "For more than a year Professor Gesellius, the famous doctor had been in China, the homeland of opium, in order to study this mysterious poison" "Ali, his faithful Indian servant, who makes final preparations for their return home." ""If your ship didn't leave so early in the morning," "I could take you back to Nung-Chiang"" ""Due to it's special preparation, his opium produces terrific sensations, though I admit it destroys mind and body like no other"" "The Opium den of Nung-Chiang" "Professor Gesellius recognizes the girl from Nung-Chiang's opium den" ""If you are a man, RESCUE ME!" "Shall I stay here and be destroyed?"" ""I will wait for you in front of the house"" "No exit" ""You will never leave this room alive ..."" ""Smoke!" "You will no longer feel pain nor hunger, nor despair"" ""My opium carries you over all the hardships of death!"" "The love of the Malay" ""Let me out!"" ""You should understand my love for Europeans"" ""I lived happily for 17 years with Sin's mother, my wife ..."" ""Among our guests was a noted European doctor"" ""..." "He had a wife and child in his own country, but despite that ..."" ""..." "All was destroyed, happiness and honor ..."" ""I didn't strangle him nor did I stab him!" "Oh no!" "Opium, my opium would be my revenge"" ""The scoundrel deteriorated quickly and disappeared." "My wife paid with her life"" ""The child - her child and his - remained in my hands"" ""Relax and smoke the opium." "It is the same as I gave to that scoundrel"" ""You are just like your mother!"" "Opium, strangest of all poisons, benefactor of sufferers of illness and pain" "Both benevolent and terrible!" "Woe to the unlucky one who succumbs." "Through all the dreams, his longing for his wife and child, who he loved above all, pulled him back toward his home" "Night" ""HELP ME!" "The guards"" ""..." "Hold him back ...!"" ""Quickly!" "We must run for our lives!" "In a quarter of an hour the ship puts out to sea"" ""You will pass only over my dead body"" "Death to the European" ""They will not escape my revenge!"" ""As he, that scoundrel, once took my love from me, so will I take yours that which is dearest to you"" "End of the 1st act" "OPIUM - 2nd ACT" "Home" "After 7 days, Sin, under the name of Magdalena was installed as a nurse in the teaching hospital" "Dr. Richard Armstrong, the favorite student and assistant to the professor" "Richard Armstrong is the son of a doctor who has been missing in China for 17 years" ""You seem so depressed, Richard." "Is something worrying you?"" ""I don't deserve your kindness ..."" "In the evening" ""Pardon me, Marie, I must prepare my lecture for tomorrow"" ""I have so much to say that is vital for the happiness of all mankind"" ""... for the happiness of all mankind ..."" "All of the work and all of the success in the world means nothing if one doesn't bring the condition of mankind nearer to happiness" "Every single one of us dreads the happiness of others" "The next morning" "Instinctive aversion" ""... it is as if this terrible time, all the happy feelings of the world would come to depend ..."" ""... a terrifying absence of joy thrusts people back down to earth"" ""..." "So it is, that many, some of the best and finest rouse their weary soul with poison The smoke of joy " " Opium!"" ""You poor souls who secretly indulge in these vices ..." "Your souls and bodies are ravaged." "A horrifying torment, a miserable infirmity is their lot." "You are lost"" ""I will create an asylum in my house for these unfortunates"" ""My house will be a house of joy"" ""Do you recognize me, my old school friend?" "I have wandered restlessly through the world for 17 years"" ""Richard Armstrong!" "What has become of you?"" ""I have paid for the heavenly pleasures and delights of smoking opium"" ""Do you know what is the worst thing?" "..." "That I can never allow myself to do it again"" ""I can't even allow myself to see my son"" "Dr. Armstrong was admitted to the Sanatorium under an assumed name" ""It is not possible!"" ""What has become of my son?"" ""Your son is my pride and joy." "How I love him!"" ""What a terrible disaster hangs over us ..." "He is a saint ... and we ..."" "Prof. Gesellius had passionately undertaken a war against Opium." "His "House of Joy" was filled with the sick, who sought cure and protection from this poison" "For the sake of his son, Dr. Armstrong bore with superhuman energy the horrible suffering and distress which the withdrawal from opium causes" ""Great God, my son didn't recognize me!"" "But Richard neglected his profession, for reasons which no one suspected" "In a foolhardy ride alone, he sought forgetfulness and - an end" ""Help me to become a new man!" "I want to be able to face my son without shame." "Help me!"" ""I came across the sea to be where you are - until my hour strikes"" "End of the 2nd act" "OPIUM - 3rd ACT" "Having heard of your investigations in China we would like to help you in fighting the opium problem in India" ""6 years alone"" ""The happiness of the world was all that counted in your life." "Where is our happiness?"" ""I have gone to ruin by your side!"" "Robbed of speech" ""His wounds are not fatal." "He will live"" ""Do you know what is the most bitter?" "When the one you love is taken away from you"" "The next day, Prof. Gesellius gave one of his famous lectures" "Despair" ""I have only done good to both of them ..."" ""I have lost faith in mankind"" ""I am at the end of my powers"" "My poor Maria, Farewell" "I leave of my own free will this life which is so miserable to me." "Give her this..." ""Your writing is so unclear." "I can't read it"" "Robbed of his vigor, confused by the blow of fate which dashed him down, the professor grasped at the poison, the fight against which had been his life's work" "Opium, strangest of all poisons, benefactor of sufferers of illness and pain both benevolent and terrible!" "Woe to those who succumb to it ..." ""My peace, my happiness, destroyed by him" " He must die!"" ""What a terrible Opium dream!"" ""He is dead!"" ""I didn't do it, so help me God, I didn't do it"" ""Because of you, my son, I wanted to begin life anew, now I see you as a corpse"" ""Do you recognize me?"" "The doubt, the terrible doubt   we would like to help you in fighting the opium problem in India" "End of the 3rd act" "OPIUM - 4th ACT" "At India" "Since that dreadful night, mixing dreams and reality, the Professor was tormented." "Had he really killed Richard Armstrong?" "And there was the accusation of Maria." "So he took up the offer to go to India" "Despite his outward calm," "Magdalena guessed at the true state of his soul." "The colorful splendor of the Orient was not able to erase the past from his memory." "A shadow-like figure followed him there - the sinister Chinese." "Tormented memories" ""Can't you leave the dead in peace?"" ""I didn't kill him!"" ""There is a way to forget, to save yourself ..."" ""Don't do it!" "It is the terrible poison of Nung-Chiang"" ""I would give my life for you"" ""I know, Magdalena, but I don't love you," "I only love one"" "From then on, Professor Gesellius was addicted to Opium" "In the Indian Opium den" "The unfortunate man succumbs to the lure ..." "In order to save her beloved," "Magdalena decided to sacrifice herself" ""No, you unhappy man, I did it"" ""I killed him because" "I believed his death would save you"" ""Because of you I have lost her - lost everything"" "At an Indian festival the professor was introduced to the Prince and Princess" "The Princess takes a fancy to the famous man" ""What do you want with him, he doesn't love you"" ""To my last breath, I will be true to him"" ""Good." "Then today he will die"" "Excited from the poison," "Gesellius allows himself an adventure with the Princess" "The sinister stimulation of the Opium" ""Maria!" "Is that you?" "My love, my wife!"" "Ali and Magdalena search for their master" ""Your wife and the European -"" "The faithful servant overhears the plot against his master" ""Seize his accomplice!"" "Intoxication weakens his hold on reality" ""Sir, save yourself!"" ""Bring me dead or alive the one who disgraced my honor!"" "End of the 4th act" "OPIUM - 5th ACT" "A boyish prank" "The burning city" "While ruin and devastation raged over him," "Gesellius wandered in the Elysian Fields" ""..." "Oh, wonderful land of dreams ..."" "Magdalena and Ali search in despair for their master" "In the meantime, the Professor is captured by the Prince's men" ""Strap him to a horse and drive him into the lion-infested jungle!"" "A bold decision" "In the jungle of the Maharajah" "The faithful servant knows the terrible dangers of of the Indian wilderness" ""You best and truest of all men, we will never part!"" ""Soon my revenge will be completed"" "End of the 5th act" "OPIUM - 6th ACT" "After unspeakable strains  privations," "Gesellius and Magdalena arrived in Europe" ""Daddy!" "Daddy!"" ""You, you alone recognize me -"" ""Is there room in the House of Joy for one in despair?"" ""You killed my son!"" ""Not him..." "I..." "I did it!"" "... Fate ..." "In the "House of Joy" which he founded, the famous Doctor now resides, himself a victim of opium's loving care" ""I do no more to you, you fool -"" ""The one who killed your son is your daughter"" ""Yes, you fool, your only daughter!"" ""..." "And you, her father, have delivered your only daughter to the executioner"" ""I am avenged!"" "Magdalena, condemned, in jail to pay the penalty for her guilt" ""Because of your dead mother, who I have always loved," "I will rescue you"" "The Professor knows that he is lost." "His poisoned body no longer possesses the ability to resist the shaking, which the withdrawal from opium causes" ""Feelings no longer oppress me " "Tell me the truth about you and him, Maria!"" "A confession" ""It was your right to love him, Maria"" "My poor Maria, farewell." "I leave of my own free will this life which is so miserable to me." "My poor Maria, farewell." "I leave of my own free will this life which is so miserable to me." ""We know that you are guiltless of the death," "Why did you try to take it upon yourself?"" ""To save that unhappy man from the delusion that he had killed Richard Armstrong"" ""You saint"" ""My child, can you forgive a miserable wretch?"" ""To end everything would be merciful, Richard Armstrong!" "Let me once more dream and die." "Enjoying the last opium dream"" "No complains undarkens the wonderful harmony of my soul" ""Is it you, the truest of all friends?"" ""Are you here to lead me?"" ""... forgive me, think only good of me ..."" "When Professor Gesellius was escorted into the land of eternal rest he didn't have the desire to die." "He wanted to live ... a new life" "... a new life ..." "THE END"