You must become Caligari!
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
- 7.9
- 1920
- Released
- 1h 17m
Werner Krauss
Dr. Caligari
Conrad Veidt
Cesare
Lil Dagover
Jane
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Alan
Rudolf Lettinger
Dr. Olsen
Henri Peters-Arnolds
Young Doctor (uncredited)
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Criminal (uncredited)
Hans Lanser-Rudolf
Old Man (uncredited)Ludwig Rex
Murderer (uncredited)
Elsa Wagner
Landlady (uncredited)
Released
de
$18,000.00
$8,811.00
- #insane asylum
- #black and white
- #silent film
- #unreliable narrator
- #expressionism
- #somnambulist
- #unreliable flashback
- #megalomania
- #madman
- #somnambulism
- #german expressionism
- #ominous
- #mudo
- #expressionismo alemão
- #hipnotismo
Reviews
This is the worst movie I've ever watched 15 minutes of. Lars von Trier once said he knew at the latest fifteen minutes into a movie whether it was worth continuing, and I took that advice to heart, so here we are. Okay. Seriously. SERIOUSLY? Yes, 102 years ago, "cinema" was in its early years. Silent movies, someone on a piano going plonkty plonk while people were drinking moonshine, smoking p
This is a seriously creepy affair that follows the story of the young "Franzis" (Friedrich Feher) who goes to a fairground one night with his friend "Alan" (Hans Heinrich von Twardowski). They happen upon the performance of the coffin-dwelling somnambulist prophesier "Cesare" (Conrad Veidt) and his spooky master "Dr. Caligari" (Werner Krauss). "Casare" - who is all but skeletal in appearance, port