The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Opens in Berlin

Article abstract: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was an artistic and commercial triumph that launched a wave of expressionistic filmmaking.

Summary of Event

Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari (1920, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) could only have been conceived as it was under a narrow set of circumstances. First was the upheaval of values in Germany after a series of disillusioning blows. These included defeat in World War I, the Spartacist (1919) and the Kapp (1920) uprisings against the unpopular Weimar Republican government responsible for the...

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