| | Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari DVD
| Category | Action DVDs, Suspense Movies, Foreign Films Videos, Thriller, Recommended, Classic, Vintage, Cult, Silent Cinema, Silent Films, German, Mad Doctor | | Starring | Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss | | Director | Robert Wiene |
DVD. Story of sleepwalker under spell of mysterious Dr. Ca ligari. New music score, audio essays, & excerpt fr. Genui ne: A Tale Of a Vampire. 72 min. In this silent, classic example of early German expressionism, this cinematic landmark relates the stylized tale of a Dr. Caligari, a fairground showman who hypnotizes an innocent villager--turning him into a sleepwalking "zombie"--and compels him to carry out fiendish murders. Inarguably a landmark in world cinema, Robert Weine's one-of-a-kind thriller features fantastical, heavily stylized sets, antirealist acting, and evocative subjective camerawork. A silent film.
Producer Erich Pommer originally hired Fritz Lang to direct, but when Lang's busy schedule kept him from working on the film he was replaced by Robert Wiene. Pommer is responsible for writing the film's famous surprise ending.
The film's production cost is estimated at under $20,000.
Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari Quotes/Excerpts: "See the sleepwalker, floating down the street, ripped from some nightmare! A street of misshapen houses with brooding windows, streaked by dagger strokes of light and darkened by blots of shadow! You will immediately feel the terror in the movements of that floating grotesque!" -- from the American advertising campaign for "Caligari". Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari Reviews: "...Exhibit A for the whole German Expressionist movement....A classic." -- Rating: A
-- Steve Simels, Entertainment Weekly "...This is an impressive color-tinted rendering of the German silent classic..."
-- Mike Clark, USA Today "...One of the first -- and still one of the greatest -- psychological horror movies..."
-- Alan Morrison, Total Film "...[An] eerie classic..."
-- Geoffrey Macnab, Sight and Sound Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari | List Price | $19.99 (You save $4.90) | | Studio | Image Entertainment | | Orig Year | 1919 | | All Time Sales Rank |  14213  | | CD Universe Part number | 1280864 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Aug 20, 2002 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Also Known As | Cabinet of Caligari | | Running Time | 72 Minutes | | Additional Info | Image Entertainment | | Movie Details | B&W; Image Entertainment |
Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari Video Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari Movie Review  'You must become Caligari.'
Visually brilliant and with a choice of two equally effective musical scores, Kino's original-tinted and superbly restored version of this weird tale of murder is probably the definitive one. The film is one of the most artful works of cinema; the additional features on this disc complement it perfectly.
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Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari DVD The film that forged the dark, ominous cinematic movement known as German Expressionism--and influenced vanguard filmmakers for generations--regains its original, electrifying authority in this definitive presentation. Werner Krauss stars as a deranged hypnotist who spreads death through the countryside from a ramshackle traveling carnival. Before the naive eyes of the townspeople, he unveils the contents of his coffin-like cabinet: Cesare (Conrad Veidt), a spidery sleepwalker who obeys his every command. But at night, once the crowds have dispersed, Caligari lifts the lid on darker intentions, unleashing the dreadful Cesare to act upon his master's murderous whims and carnal desires. Director Robert Wiene and his designers combined techniques of painting, theatre and film to conjure a nightmare world of splintered reality, boldly creating a visual representation of insanity.
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