Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema

Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema

52 mins | Documentary, History, TV Movie | Feb. 12, 2014

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.

Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema

52 mins | Documentary, History, TV Movie | Feb. 12, 2014

Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema
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.
Producers ARTE, ZDF, Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, LOOKS
Original title Caligari — Wie der Horror ins Kino kam
Directors Rüdiger Suchsland
Writers Rüdiger Suchsland

Cast

Martin Engler

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Erika Gregor

as Self

Ulrich Gregor

as Self