"The film, HAUNTED CASTLE (Schloss Vogeloed), was restored in 2002, using the following material:" "an original negative of the Federal Film Archive, Berlin and a celluloid, tinted copy, with Portuguese intertitles from the Fundacao Cinemateca Brasileira, preserved in the Federal Film Archive in Koblenz." "Most intertitles were kept from the original negative and have been extended for reconstruction." "The missing intertitles were reconstructed using the script and a list of titles Decla-Bioscop filed on 31 March 1921." "The new intertitles used the original format" "And bear the logo FWMS." "The work was done in collaboration with the Federal Archive" "Film Archive, Berlin / Koblenz and Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Stiftung." "The reconstruction was done in collaboration with the Berlin Federal Film / Koblenz archives and Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Stiftung, Wiesbaden." "Vogel Castle." "The revelation of a secret." "5 Acts" "Based on a story by Rudolf Stratz." "published in the journal "Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung"" "Adapted by Carl Mayer" "Direction" " F. W. Murnau" "Tailored menswear from the S. Adam House." "Schloss Vogeloed." "First Act" "In the Vogel Castle after the rain" "It has been raining all through the hunting days of October." "The lord of the castle." "The Guests." ""Count Oetsch!"" ""You..." "Count Oetsch?"" ""You forgot to invite me?"" "The Retired County Court Judge" ""Rumor has it that he treacherously killed his own brother three years ago!" "He thus became the only owner of all the inheritance ... "" "The Frightened Gentleman" ""Yet, all those who were able to follow the trial at the time, are convinced that he is the murderer."" ""I would remind you once more that I am expecting this very night the widow of your brother as my guest!"" ""The widow of the victim?" "The widow of the victim." "She married Baron Safferstätt a year ago." ""I would like to spare all of us the situation... of the Baroness's meeting you here, my lord!"" ""So, you are staying!" "But, you will take all responsibility for what happens."" "Waiting for the Baroness." ""They may arrive at any moment, and Count Oetsch is inside..."" ""So, you pretend to have learned the art of prophecy in India?"" ""Will you then tell us whether, considering that this is a hunting party..." ""Whether one shot will be fired!"" ""There will be ONE shot ...!"" ""..." "Maybe ... even two?"" ""Oetsch is here!"" ""You will understand that - under these circumstances" " we cannot stay with you..."" ""No, you cannot leave!" "Do you know who else will come here to see you?"" ""Father Faramund, from Rome!"" ""Father Faramund ... from Rome?"" ""Yes, I almost had forgotten it in all this excitement!" "I must go at once and get his letter." "I'll bring the letter to you soon."" ""Father" " Faramund?"" ""You do not want to show me the door?"" ""She will stay!" "She will wait for Father Faramund!"" "... it fills me with great joy to know that the wife of my late relative, ... will be invited into your home." "Blessed are the circumstances that bring me back to the north, after being so long in Rome." "I shall arrive in the coming days at Schloss Vogel, to meet with all of you in person, my dear friends ..." "End of the First Act." "Schloss Vogeloed." "Second Act." "The next day - a surprise:" "The Sun!" ""Finally!"" "Weather forecast:" "Today, sun." "No risk of rain." ""Are you not coming hunting with us?"" ""I only go hunting in rain and storm!"" ""Tell me, why is your husband always so quiet? "" "But, alas, only fifteen minutes later ..." "The day." ""His Reverence, Father Faramund, has just announced his arrival for tonight."" ""Look, the adventurous Count Oetsch is actually going hunting in such beastly weather."" ""He should know why he is shunning the arrival of his relative, the Father!"" ""I have ... many things ... to talk about ... tonight ... with the Father ...!"" "Nightfall." ""If the Baroness permits it, I would like to present her my compliments tonight."" ""Now our house is truly blessed."" ""Whatever happens," "Do not stop loving me! "" ""The Baroness will see His Reverence now."" ""Tell me, dear child, tell me ...!" ""How strange, Your Reverence... this meeting."" ""...for all these years I have fought with the idea" "to speak my mind to you, Your Reverence - the only man..." ""who was a friend and relative of my late husband..."" ""It has been four years now..."" "End of the Second Act" "Schloss Vogeloed." "Third Act" ""Our marriage was - at first - like just one continuous day of happiness."" ""So we lived for months in blinding happiness. "" ""One day, he went away ..."" ""He returned a few weeks later and ..." "He was someone else." "He buried himself in his writings ... sacred books ... "" ""Believe me, dear child, true happiness lies only in the renunciation of everything worldly."" ""He wanted a saint ..." "And he wanted to see in me only the qualities of a saint ..."" ""So for months ..." "I froze ... the purer he became, my attachment to the mundane seemed more terrible..."" ""I was craving ... to do something evil ... wanting something evil ... "" ""That's when I met Baron Safferstätt ..." ""My husband wanted to give away all his possessions, and distribute his assets to the poor, and that brought many conflicts with his brother ... until, one night, a complete breakup occurred."" ""The next night ... something terrible happened ..." "My husband ... was shot dead."" ""I cannot continue ... not now ... maybe tomorrow ... "" ""Will you please excuse me for today." "I will pay my respects tomorrow to the owners of the castle." "A conversation about hunting." ""Would you also believe that I once killed a lion?" "Evening." ""Please ask His Reverence to come see me!"" "A quarter of an hour later." ""No, nobody left through here!"" ""We looked all over the castle!"" ""This is becoming very sinister!"" "An hour later." "No one has found a trace of the Father." ""A crime?" "Maybe ..." "Committed by ..." "Count Oetsch!"" "Dreams." ""Enough is enough!" "Tomorrow I'm leaving!"" "But the assistant in the kitchen dreams of what happened in the last few hours ..." "End of the Third Act." "Schloss Vogeloed." "Fourth Act" "The morning of the third day." ""So, try to understand!" "Suddenly there are important affairs to be attended to!"" ""They don't feel quite at ease any more in my house."" ""I have informed the authorities of my suspicions about this Count Oetsch...!"" "A happy man." ""She is so strange... she doesn't say a thing, even not about the Father who disappeared?"" "At noon." ""Have you ever murdered anyone?"" ""What ... did you say ... that?"" ""Gentlemen!" "Why not let me finish speaking?"" ""Last night I had a dream!"" ""Count Oetsch!" "The present atmosphere in my house does not seem appropriate for that kind of joke!" "" ""Believe me, my investigating eye is experienced!"" ""...and yet, Count Oetsch is involved in the Father's disappearance."" ""He is acting so superior in order to conceal his new crime."" ""He will have to apologize for his inappropriate joke in the presence of all the guests!"" ""You absolutely have to speak to him." ""You already know everything, Sir!"" ""Perhaps you also know who is suspected of causing the Father's disappearance?"" "causing the Father's disappearance?"" ""Me!"" ""But, I know even more, Mr. Ex-Justice." "I also know how to discover secrets."" ""To give you an example, I am now going to give away one of the Baron's secrets."" ""Count Oetsch!" "If you know other people's secrets, you are not allowed to disclose them in front of everybody."" "to disclose them in front of everybody."" ""My compliments for your opinion!" "I just want to whisper a few words into Baron Safferstätt's ears."" ""No. ... no ..." "I am ... not a murderer."" ""What are these suggestions?"" ""Do you perhaps suddenly accuse the Baron of the assassination of your brother?"" ""Perhaps?"" ""I will question Baron Safferstätt."" ""Today I'll find out!"" "He murdered my husband ...!" "He shot his own brother during an argument!" "End of the Fourth Act." "Schloss Vogeloed." "Fifth Act" "Half an hour later." ""What do you know of that day, my dear - speak!"" ""My Lord, the Count, preferred to run away!""" ""And so I tell you, he has the disappearance of the Father also on his conscience."" ""Father Faramund... has returned again!"" ""Yesterday I was seeking comfort, and you did not come!" " Today" " I will make my confession to you!"" ""Because you, as a priest, must keep silent!"" ""We must not do anything now!" "The events of these last days will now probably clear up!"" ""A few days before the murder of my husband ... "" ""I am appalled at such holiness ...!"" ""I'd like to see something evil ... something very very evil!"" ""A murder ... !"" ""Baron Safferstätt, burning with passion for me, had terribly misunderstood me!"" ""He killed my husband!"" ""He confessed to me two days later."" ""Then I realized I was guilty. "" ""The Count was arrested." "If he had been convicted ... "" ""..." "We would have been poisoned ... to prove his innocence ... "" ""But, he was not convicted!"" ""Thus accursed, both of us!" "Fearing life!" "Fearing death. "" "Tied together by our guilt!"" "We got married!" "That is our marriage!"" ""So we became two comrades!" "And today I have saved him!"" ""I implicated Count Oetsch in the murder of his own brother!"" ""I have followed my destiny so far!"" ""Now you know everything!" "And you must remain silent!"" ""..." "I ..." "I understand!"" ""Act like a man!"" ""I ... was ... not happy ..."" ""A shot ...?"" "Evening peace." ""His struggles are over!"" ""I, who was innocently accused, had always guessed..."" ""So, some way had to be found for me finally to clear myself from this ignominious suspicion!"" ""So, I arrived before Father Faramund, who was also expected at the castle!"" "Thus I came to the castle to await Father Faramund!"" ""We have to beg your pardon for so many things!"" "Nightfall." ""I am Father Faramond of Rome."" "The End" "The story, "Vogel Castle," by Rudolf Stratz was published by Ullstein."