Robert Heymann (1879–1946) was a German screenwriter and film director active during the silent era.^[1] He began as a playwright in 1901 and also wrote novels. He worked with the Berlin-based production company Luna Film. For them he directed the four-part Satan's Memoirs, the second most expensive German film made during the First World War.^[2] The 1931 film Panic in Chicago was adapted from his novel of the same title.^[3] Of Jewish heritage he had to leave Germany following the Nazi takeover.

Selected filmography

• Lola Montez (1918)
• Cain (1918)
• Victim of Society (1919)
• The Secret of the Scaffold (1919)
• The Black Forest Girl (1920)
• The Haunting of Castle Kitay (1920)
• Colonel Chabert (1920)
• The Deerslayer and Chingachgook (1920)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
• Circus People (1922)
• In the Ecstasy of Billions (1922)
• Time Is Money (1923)
• The Emperor's Old Clothes (1923)
• The Blame (1924)
• The Tragedy of the Dishonoured (1924)

References

Bibliography

• Giesen, Rolf. The Nosferatu Story: The Seminal Horror Film, Its Predecessors and Its Enduring Legacy. McFarland, 2019.
• Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. Berghahn Books, 1999.

External links

• Robert Heymann at IMDb