The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Restored Authorized Edition)
by Robert Wiene
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Actor: Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Lil Dagover, Werner KraussDirector: Robert Wiene
Cinematographer: Willy Hameister
Producer: Erich Pommer
Producer: Rudolf Meinert
Writer: Carl Mayer
Writer: Hans Janowitz
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: German (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 67 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-09-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Kino Video
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Movie Review: Innovative in many ways
Summary: 4 Stars
The Expressionist sets in this movie really surprised me. Their off-kilter angles and surreal geometries create a suitably dream-like environment for the somnambulist nightmare to take place in. Those wild shapes certainly set the stage appropriately for this unusual movie, but figuratively set the stage for many later innovations in scenery design, as well. The ending, too, has an ambiguity that I didn't expect.
The version of Caligari that I saw wasn't the best restored. That, however, worked to my advantage this time. Between uncertain contrast in places and varying light levels, I suddenly realized why actors in the silent classics tended toward stark styles of makeup - it helped keep their facial expressions legible despite the erratic photography of the time.
Too many of its descendants have done too much more with movie-making for me to appreciate Caligari as its original audiences did, ninety years ago. In fact, many later movies surpassed Caligari by learning from it. Instead, I watched this as an historical artifact, the originator of ideas that have been developed since. That I found very enjoyable, and I'm grateful that this remarkable movie has survived to the current day.
-- wiredweird
Summary of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Restored Authorized Edition)
A nightmare realm in which light shadow & substance are abstracted a world in which a demented doctor & a carnival sleepwalker perpetrate a series of ghastly murders in a small community. Studio: Kino International Release Date: 10/05/2004 Starring: Conrad Veidt Lil Dagover Run time: 75 minutes Director: Robert WeineA milestone of the silent film era and one of the first "art films" to gain international acclaim, this eerie German classic from 1919 remains the most prominent example of German expressionism in the emerging art of the cinema. Stylistically, the look of the film's painted sets--distorted perspectives, sharp angles, twisted architecture--was designed to reflect (or express) the splintered psychology of its title character, a sinister figure who uses a lanky somnambulist (Conrad Veidt) as a circus attraction. But when Caligari and his sleepwalker are suspected of murder, their novelty act is surrounded by more supernatural implications. With its mad-doctor scenario, striking visuals, and a haunting, zombie-like character at its center, Caligari was one of the first horror films to reach an international audience, sending shock waves through artistic circles and serving as a strong influence on the classic horror films of the 1920s, '30s, and beyond. It's a museum piece today, of interest more for its historical importance, but Caligari still casts a considerable spell. --Jeff Shannon
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