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.
Screenplay
Carl Mayer, Hans Janowitz
n/a
Release date
February 27, 1920
Top billed cast
Werner Krauß, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Fehér, Lil Dagover, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Production companies
Decla Film Gesellschaft Holz & Co.
Keywords
insane asylum, cult film, silent film, unreliable narrator, expressionism, somnambulist, unreliable flashback, megalomania, madman, somnambulism, german expressionism
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