THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION)

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• Release Year: 1920
• Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: The film that forged the dark, ominous cimenatic movement know as German Expressionism - and influenced vanguard filmakers for generations - at last regains its original, electrifying authority in this definitive presentation of Robert Wiene's 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'.; ; Werner Krauss stars as a deranged hynotist who spreads through the contryside from a ramshackle traveling carnival. Before the naïve eyes of the townspeople, he unveils the contents of his coffin-like cabinet: Cesare, a spidery sleepwalker who obeys his every command. But at night, once the crowds have dispersed, Caligari lifts the lid on darker intentions, unleashing the dreadful Cesare to act upon his master's murderous whims and carnal desires. ; ; In making 'Caligari', director Wiene and designers Warm, Reimann and Röhrig combined techniques of painting, theatre and film to conjure a nightmare world of splintered reality ... boldly creating a visual representation of insanity ... taking the art of cinema a lengthy stride into unexplored stylistic and psychological terrain, hinting at the terrifying power the medium might possess.; Also featured in this DVD is an excerpt of GENUINE, which reunited 'Caligari´s' creative team to continue their radical experiments with expressionistic sets and imagery.
• Cast: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Rudolf Lettinger, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Hans Lanser-Rudolf, Henri Peters-Arnolds, Ludwig Rex, Elsa Wagner, Robert Wiene, Carl Mayer, Hans Janowitz
• Director: Robert Wiene
• Runtime: 1:16
• Company: Image Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie