The cabinet of Dr. Caligari = Das cabinet des Dr. Caligari

Author

Robert Wiene

Call Number

• DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Languages

Silent, with German intertitles and optional English subtitles.

Performers

Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Lil Dagover, Friedrich Fehér.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Kino Classics, [2014]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (77 minutes) : sound; black and white (color tinted) ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

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."--Container.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1920.

Bonus features: Caligari: how horror came to the cinema (documentary, 52 minutes) ; additional music score by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky ; image gallery ; restoration demonstration.