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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (German: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is a 1920 German silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, it tells the story of an insane hypnotist ( Werner Krauss ) who uses a brainwashed somnambulist ( Conrad ...
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: Directed by Robert Wiene. With Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover. Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
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- Robert Wiene
- 1920-02-27
Jun 3, 2009 · The first thing everyone notices and best remembers about "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1920) is the film's bizarre look. The actors inhabit a jagged landscape of sharp angles and tilted walls and windows, staircases climbing crazy diagonals, trees with spiky leaves, grass that looks like knives.
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, German silent horror film, released in 1920, that is widely considered the first great work in the genre. It also was the first film in the German Expressionist movement.
The mysterious Dr. Caligari (played by Werner Krauss) arrives in a rural German village with his companion Cesare (Conrad Veidt), a man in an eternal state of sleep who can be ordered to perform his master’s commands. A series of gruesome murders lead some to believe that the doctor and his strange “assistant” may well be to blame.
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•Studio: Decla-Bioscop AG
•Director: Robert Weine
•Producers: Erich Pommer and Rudolf Meinert
•Writers: Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer
•Music: Giuseppe Becce
•Running time: 67 minutes
•Werner Krauss (Dr. Caligari)
•Conrad Veidt (Cesare)
•Fredrich Feher (Franzis)
•Lil Dagover (Jane)
•Hans Heinz von Twardowski (Alan)
•Rudolph Lettinger (Dr. Olson)
- Lee Pfeiffer
Arguably the first true horror film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari set a brilliantly high bar for the genre -- and remains terrifying nearly a century after it first stalked the screen.
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