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The cabinet of Dr. Caligari = Das cabinet des Dr. Caligari Das cabinet des Dr. Caligari
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- Summary
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A masterpiece of psychological horror and the film that has come to epitomize the mysterious highly stylized German expressionist cinema. A demented hypnotist and his ghastly henchman spread death ...
A masterpiece of psychological horror and the film that has come to epitomize the mysterious highly stylized German expressionist cinema. A demented hypnotist and his ghastly henchman spread death througout the German countryside. Newly remastered from the archival German material and tinted according to original instructions with evocative score.
Details
- Creator
- a film spiel in 6 Akten von Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Wiene, Robert, director
- Mayer, Carl, 1894-1944, screenwriter
- Janowitz, Hans, screenwriter
- Krauss, Werner, 1884-1959, actor
- Veidt, Conrad, 1893-1943, actor
- Feher, Friedrich, actor
- Dagover, Lil, actor
- Twardowski, Hans Heinrich von, 1898-1958, actor
- Lettinger, Rudolph, 1865-1937, actor
- Andra, Fern, 1893-1974, actor
- Decla Film-Gesellschaft
- Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
- Kino International Corporation
- Kanopy (Firm)
- Publication
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- [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 76 min.) : silent, black and white
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- OCLC
- ocn897772815
- Credits
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- Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Fehér, Lil Dagover, Hans Hainz v. Twardowsky, Rudolph Lettinger. Genuine: Fern Andra, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
- Photographed by Willy Hameister ; art direction, Hermann Warm, Walter Reimann, Walter Röhrig ; new music, Timothy Brock. Genuine: Camera by Willy Hameister ; script by Carl Mayer ; set design by Walter Reimman & Cesar Klein
- Originally produced in Germany as a motion picture in 1919. Reconstructed by the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv of Germany in 2002.
- "The 4K restoration was created by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung in Wiesbaden from the original camera negative held a tthe B undesarchiv-Filmarchiv in Berlin. The first reel of the camera negative is missing and was completed from different prints. Jump cuts and missing frames in 67 shots were completed by different prints. A German distribution print is not existing, Basis for the colours were two nitrate prints from Latin America, which represent the earliest surviving prints. They are today at the Filmmuseum Dusseldorf and the Cineteca di Bologna. The intertitles wer resumed from the flashtitles in the camera negative and a 16mm print from 1935 from the Deutsche Kinemathek-Museum fur Film und Fernsehen in Berlin. The digital image restoration was carried out by L'Immagine Ritrovata-Film Conservation and Restoration in Bologna."--Opening credits.
- Silent film with German title cards with English subtitles and musical accompaniment.