Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema

2014 6.7 (6 votes) 0h 52m

Genres

Documentary History TV Movie

Production Companies

LOOKSfilm
ZDF
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung
ARTE

Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema (Caligari — Wie der Horror ins Kino kam)

Overview

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.