---
title: 'Living Buddhas (1925)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Paul Wegener'
released: '1925-05-12'
genres:
  - 'Fantasy'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/living-buddhas-1925'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132276/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Living Buddhas (1925)

1925 · Fantasy · Germany

Original title: Lebende Buddhas

## Synopsis

Living Buddhas is a 1925 German silent film in five chapters, directed by Paul Wegener and starring Wegener, Asta Nielsen and Käthe Haack. It was co-written by Wegener and Hans Sturm. Wegener cast himself as the evil High Llama of a devil cult. Danish actress Nielsen's film career went downhill quickly with the advent of sound films. It was made at the Staaken Studios in Berlin. Only five minutes of footage survive of the original 139-minute running time.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Paul Wegener](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-wegener)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Willy Schmidt-Gentner](https://cinepixo.com/people/willy-schmidt-gentner)
- **Director of Photography:** [Guido Seeber](https://cinepixo.com/people/guido-seeber)

## Cast

- [Paul Wegener](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-wegener)
- [Carl Ebert](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-ebert)
- [Käthe Haack](https://cinepixo.com/people/kathe-haack)
- [Eduard Rothauser](https://cinepixo.com/people/eduard-rothauser)
- [Asta Nielsen](https://cinepixo.com/people/asta-nielsen)
- [Friedrich Kühne](https://cinepixo.com/people/friedrich-kuhne)
- [Gregori Chmara](https://cinepixo.com/people/gregori-chmara)
- [Heinrich Schroth](https://cinepixo.com/people/heinrich-schroth)
- [Max Pohl](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-pohl)

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