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title: 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Robert Wiene'
released: '1920-02-27'
runtime_minutes: 77
genres:
  - 'Horror'
  - 'Fantasy'
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari-1920'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010323/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

1920 · 77 min · Horror, Fantasy, Crime · Germany

Original title: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

## Synopsis

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a 1920 German silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. The quintessential work of early German Expressionist cinema, it tells the story of a hypnotist who uses a somnambulist Cesare to commit murders. The film features a dark, twisted visual style, with sharp-pointed forms; oblique, curving lines; structures and landscapes that lean and twist in unusual angles; and shadows and streaks of light painted directly onto the sets. The set design is "anti-realistic, claustrophobic" and "harsh" which is "coupled with feverish anxiety [that] entered the vocabulary of filmmakers and film viewers" particularly during the Weimar Republic, when this film was made.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Robert Wiene](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-wiene)
- **Screenplay:** [Carl Mayer](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-mayer), [Hans Janowitz](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-janowitz)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Giuseppe Becce](https://cinepixo.com/people/giuseppe-becce)
- **Producer:** [Erich Pommer](https://cinepixo.com/people/erich-pommer), [Rudolf Meinert](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolf-meinert)
- **Director of Photography:** [Willy Hameister](https://cinepixo.com/people/willy-hameister)

## Cast

- [Lil Dagover](https://cinepixo.com/people/lil-dagover)
- [Rudolf Lettinger](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolf-lettinger)
- [Conrad Veidt](https://cinepixo.com/people/conrad-veidt)
- [Werner Krauss](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-krauss) as Dr. Caligari
- [Ludwig Rex](https://cinepixo.com/people/ludwig-rex)
- [Elsa Wagner](https://cinepixo.com/people/elsa-wagner)
- [Friedrich Feher](https://cinepixo.com/people/friedrich-feher)
- [Rudolf Klein-Rogge](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolf-klein-rogge)
- [Hans Heinrich von Twardowski](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-heinrich-von-twardowski)

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