The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)

Timing: 1:17 (77 min)

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Video 7

Photo 143

Actors and characters

Release date

1920-02-27

Country

Germany

Production

Decla Film Gesellschaft Holz & Co.

Genre

Drama, Horror, Thriller, Crime

Budget

$18 000

Revenue

$8 811

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Director

Robert Wiene

Actors

Werner Krauß, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Fehér, Lil Dagover, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Rudolf Lettinger, Henri Peters-Arnolds, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Hans Lanser-Rudolf, Ludwig Rex
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Scenario

Producer

Erich Pommer, Rudolf Meinert

Operator

Willy Hameister

Composer

Giuseppe Becce

Artist

Audition

Editing

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• The film is considered the first full-fledged horror film.
• The name Caligari was taken by the screenwriters from Stendhal's correspondence.
• The film's unique artistic design and sets were created by Expressionist artists from the Der Sturm group – Hermann Warm, Walther Ryrikh, and Walter Reimann, who proposed the innovative idea that films should look like living drawings.
• To disrupt the film's screening in the USA, competitors of the distribution company even organized protest marches by war veterans with the slogan, "We will not watch films made by America's enemies!"
• Initially, Fritz Lang was supposed to direct the film, but he was busy with another project by the time filming began. However, it was Lang who came up with the idea of framing the film's plot with scenes in an insane asylum, thereby radically changing its interpretation.
• To disrupt the film's screenings in the United States, competitors of the distribution company even organized protest marches by war veterans under the slogan "Let's not watch films made by America's enemies!"