Yeah, I’ve always loved the little moment of him groping for the door handle.

I seem to recall he was described as a “pale-faced youth” or something in the novelization, but then I’ve given up trying to guess what age anyone in an old movie is *meant* to be, because hair and clothing styles, etc, often cause me to perceive them as older than the actors actually were, plus I live in an era where social adulthood seems to be pretty fluid and often delayed. Also I googled Otto Wernicke’s birth date and Inspector Lohmann, in the second movie, is five years younger than I currently am (I have multiple diegetic and non-diegetic thoughts about that), so at this point I’ve just given up and embraced the fact that I’m ancient and also unable to identify anyone else’s age, which is kind of fun because I can pretend I’m a slightly bemused supernatural being who has trouble with human timescales.