The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

By Robert Wiene

  • Genre: Classics
  • Release Date: 2014-10-31
  • Advisory Rating: NR
  • Runtime: 1h 17min
  • Director: Robert Wiene
  • Production Company: Decla Film Gesellschaft Holz & Co.
  • Production Country: Germany
  • iTunes Price: USD 3.99
  • iTunes Rent Price: USD 3.99
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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.

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  • A silent gem

    5
    By Matthew Mikaelian
    This piece is one of the few silent films that maintained its relevance and effect through the years. It's one of my favorite classics.

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