'Der Geheimnisvolle Spiegel' would translate as 'The Mysterious Mirror'. This is an eerie and moody supernatural fable that deserves to be better known, although the storyline is more episodic than it ought to be.
SPOILERS COMING. An old castle in Bavaria contains a magical mirror. Whoever looks into it by the light of the full moon will see his or her future reflected in the looking-glass. Over the course of the film, several people take advantage of this. (The castle is uninhabited, yet it's maintained in good nick and nobody seems to have any trouble getting into the place.) In each case, the mirror shows its observer a vision of the future which seems to have a very clear-cut and unambiguous meaning. In every case, the future vision turns out to be extremely misleading yet entirely accurate. None of the visitors got what they originally wanted. This story has the flavour of all those 'deal with the devil' stories, in which the Faust character gets exactly what he wished for, yet invariably regrets it.
The last visitor to the castle shatters the mirror before leaping to his death. After he's gone, we see the pieces of the shattered glass reassembling, so that the mirror remains whole. The message seems to be that we can't escape our fate.
I found this movie very shudder-worthy, and I rate it 8 out of 10.
SPOILERS COMING. An old castle in Bavaria contains a magical mirror. Whoever looks into it by the light of the full moon will see his or her future reflected in the looking-glass. Over the course of the film, several people take advantage of this. (The castle is uninhabited, yet it's maintained in good nick and nobody seems to have any trouble getting into the place.) In each case, the mirror shows its observer a vision of the future which seems to have a very clear-cut and unambiguous meaning. In every case, the future vision turns out to be extremely misleading yet entirely accurate. None of the visitors got what they originally wanted. This story has the flavour of all those 'deal with the devil' stories, in which the Faust character gets exactly what he wished for, yet invariably regrets it.
The last visitor to the castle shatters the mirror before leaping to his death. After he's gone, we see the pieces of the shattered glass reassembling, so that the mirror remains whole. The message seems to be that we can't escape our fate.
I found this movie very shudder-worthy, and I rate it 8 out of 10.
