Shadows and Fog

Shadows and Fog is a 1991 American black-and-white comedy film directed by Woody Allen and based on his one-act play Death (1975). The film stars Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, John Cusack, Madonna, and Kenneth Mars, and was filmed on a massive 26,000-square-foot set. It is an homage to German Expressionist filmmakers Fritz Lang, G. W. Pabst and F. W. Murnau in its visual presentation, and to the writer Franz Kafka in theme, recreating the chiaroscuro aesthetic of German Expressionism but with Woody Allen's rambling screenplay retreading his neurotic obsessions.