Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema

Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 12, 2014

Runtime

0h 52m

Genres

Documentary, History, TV Movie

User Score

67%

Original Title

Caligari — Wie der Horror ins Kino kam

Production Companies

LOOKS, ZDF, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung, ARTE

Director

Rüdiger Suchsland

Description

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.