Synopsis Of The Cabinet Of Doctor Caligari

Direction: Robert Wiene

Production: Rudolf Meinert and Erich Pommer.

Script: Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer.

Music: Giuseppe Becce

Photography: Willy hameister

Distribution: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Fehér, Lil Dagover, and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski.

Country: Germany.

Year: 1920.

Gender: Suspense

Duration: 71 min

Producer: Goldwyn Distributing Company

"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" is considered the most representative film of German expressionist cinema, directed by Robert Wiene, the film tells about the story of the mysterious doctor Caligari who owns a kind of circus that presents a sleepwalker named Cesare. The enigmatic individual is capable of predicting the future of people. Cesare's predictions on the most frequent question from the public When am I going to die? and some murders, unleash suspicions about the doctor and his puppet, suspicions that will be clarified at the end of the tape, but not before going through a series of horrifying events.

German expressionist cinema is characterized by very specific elements that we can find in the film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", where we can see a characterization of the characters are highly exaggerated, as well as a deformation in the objects of the scenery, the game with shadows is notorious and important in this type of cinema, in the same way are the themes about vampires, hypnotists, death and other matters that are appropriate to a cinema full of mystery, which is considered the initiator of the suspense cinema that we know today in day.