Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema

2014

52 min

6.7

Ends at

On February 26, 1920, Robert Wiene's world-famous film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. To this day, it is considered a manifesto of German expressionism; a legend of cinema and a key work to understand the nature of the Weimar Republic and the constant political turmoil in which a divided society lived after the end of the First World War.

Budget

$0

Genre

Documentary, History, TV Movie

Director

RĂ¼diger Suchsland

Country

Germany

Cast & Crew

Martin Engler

Elisabeth Bronfen

Erika Gregor

Ulrich Gregor

Rosa von der Schulenberg

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Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema

On February 26, 1920, Robert Wiene's world-famous film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. To this day, it is considered a manifesto of German expressionism; a legend of cinema and a key work to understand the nature of the Weimar Republic and the constant political turmoil in which a divided society lived after the end of the First World War.

  • Martin Engler

  • Elisabeth Bronfen

  • Erika Gregor

  • Ulrich Gregor

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