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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Name: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Genre: Horror
Released: 1920
Duration: 51 min
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Lil Dagover, Friedrich Feher

192051 minHorror✓ Verified rightsSilent · CC0 piano score

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) is a 51-minute horror film that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is a silent film, presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score. It is in the U.S. public domain. Directed by Robert Wiene.

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About The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (German: Das Cabinet des 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 (Werner Krauss) who uses a somnambulist Cesare (Conrad Veidt) to commit murders.

In what appears to be a park, Franzis sits on a bench with an older man who complains that spirits have driven him away from his family and home. When a dazed woman passes them, Franzis explains she is his fiancée Jane and that they have suffered a great ordeal. The primary crux of the film is a flashback of Franzis' story, which takes place in Holstenwall, a shadowy town of twisted buildings and spiralling streets. Franzis and his friend Alan, who are good-naturedly competing for Jane's affections, plan to visit the town fair.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Robert Wiene
Cast includes: Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Lil Dagover, Friedrich Feher, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Rudolf Lettinger, Elsa Wagner
Country: Germany

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Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1920 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Music: Silent film: this copy has an added soundtrack of unknown origin, so original audio is MUTED and a CC0 (Musopen) piano bed is played instead.
Underlying rights: Silent.
Source: Internet Archive

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