He was engaged as a sculptor for the movies"Peter der Grosse" (1922) with Emil Jannings, Fritz Lang's monumental film "Die Nibelungen" (1924), "Zur Chronik von Grieshuus" (1925) with Lil Dagover and Paul Hartmann and finally Lang's masterpiece "Metropolis" (1926) with Brigitte Helm and Gustav Fröhlich.