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Cabinet of Dr. Calgari
Year
1920
Language
GERMAN (ENGLISH subtitles)
Duration
1h 15m
Rating
NR
CC
Performers
Friedrich Feher, Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover
Directed By
Robert Wiene
Publication Information
Kino Lorber
Summary
In 1920, one brilliant movie jolted the postwar masses and catapulted the movement known as German Expressionism into film history. That movie was The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a plunge into the mind of insanity that severs all ties with the rational world. Director Robert Wiene and a visionary team of designers crafted a nightmare realm in which light, shadow and substance are abstracted, a world in which a demented doctor and a carnival sleepwalker perpetrate a series of ghastly murders in a small community. This authoritative edition of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a 4K restoration scanned from the (mostly) preserved camera negative at the German Federal Film Archive.