Max Kaufmann

Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner Krauss, Hanna Ralph and Albert Bassermann. The film depicts the final years of Napoleon between 1815 and 1821 during his period of exile on the British Atlantic island of Saint Helena following his defeat at Waterloo.

In his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young Friedrich Schiller himself: on the misery of his soul whilst a pupil of the ducal military academy, his opposition to the strict physical drill and the narrow intellectual confines of the "Karlsschule", his juvenile passion for the works of Shakespeare, Klopstock and Lessing, his anger at unjust authorities, his devotion to women, and finally his inability to cope with financial matters

At Praterstern, the controlled fear and adrenaline of the people on the Sausage Prater's roller coasters collides with the media-hyped fear of the Praterstern environment. Serapions Theater uses this very contradiction as the impetus for its film by bringing the two locations together; now, everyday life becomes an attraction: The Praterstern train station halls become a roller coaster ride, and its shop windows become a hall of mirrors.