Caligari: How Horror Came to the Cinema
- IMDb link: 3898470
- IMDb rating: 6.9 (106 votes) Search
- Genres: History, Documentary
- Director: Rudiger Suchsland
- Cast: Martin Engler, Erika Gregor, Ulrich Gregor, Alfred Abel, Lil Dagover, Marlene Dietrich and others
- Release date: 12 Feb 2014
- Release year: 2014
- Runtime: 52 minutes
- Country: Germany
- Keywords: german history, reference to world war one, film critic, film history, sociology, germany, sociology of film, weimar cinema, dvd extra, interview
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A documentary about the seminal horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and the purpose of cinema as a cultural tool according to Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966).
Film critic Rudiger Suchsland's debut film focuses on Robert Wiene's expressionist horror film classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) while examining the historic Weimar Republic (1918-1933), inspired by celebrated German sociologist Siegfried Kracauer's influential book 'From Caligari to Hitler' (1947). What effects do cinema and society have upon each other? Suchland's film is about the reflections of Weimar society in cinema and its visible 'collective spirit'(Kracauer).
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