Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema
MovieTitle | Caligari — Wie der Horror ins Kino kam |
User score | 6.7 |
Release date | Feb 12, 2014 |
Genre | Documentary, History, TV Movie |
Director | Rüdiger Suchsland |
Production country | Germany |
Production companies | LOOKS, ZDF, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung, ARTE |
Run time | 52 min. |
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.