Trivia

Reinert's films were not a commercial success, and in 1925 he got a job with UFA, where he worked until his death of a heart attack in 1928.

He worked regular in the film business from 1915 and he first wrote again numerous screenplays.

Robert Reinert was married with the actress Thea Steinbrecher.

The director, producer and screenwriter Robert Reinert already wrote his first screenplay in 1906 for "Der Weg zur Sonne" (1906).

Robert Reinert also realised many movies as a director from 1916.

In the 20s he only directed two more movies with "Sterbende Völker" (1922) and "Die vier letzten Sekunden des Quidam Uhl" (1924) but he continued to write screenplays for movies.

About Nerven, one recent critic wrote "Nerven is a disorienting, highly experimental work. Released in 1919, before The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (early 1920), it might have become a prototype of German Expressionist cinema if it had been widely seen.".

Robert Reinert was also a producer of movies since 1917 and in the movie "Das Haus der Leidenschaften" (1916) he also appeared as an actor in front of the camera.

Born in Vienna, he moved to Munich around 1900.

His successful script for the film Homunculus (1916) led him to direct several films, most notably Opium and Nerven. Nerven opened in Munich in 1919. People were hospitalized after watching the movie and one woman, after seeing it, woke up one night, went out on the street in her nightshirt and screamed "Now I am going to die! Now I am going to die!".