The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

2014 • 77 minutes
4.8
44 reviews
96%
Tomatometer
Eligible
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In 1920, one brilliant movie jolted the postwar masses and catapulted the movement known as German Expressionism into film history. That movie was The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a plunge into the mind of insanity that severs all ties with the rational world. Director Robert Wiene and a visionary team of designers crafted a nightmare realm in which light, shadow and substance are abstracted, a world in which a demented doctor and a carnival sleepwalker perpetrate a series of ghastly murders in a small community. This authoritative edition of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a 4K restoration scanned from the (mostly) preserved camera negative at the German Federal Film Archive.

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4.8
44 reviews
Kurt
September 24, 2020
Old doesn't make it good..
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Dana Murphy
October 8, 2020
Wonderful movie with a great ending. I saw it years ago and still think of how good it is often.
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Albert Mancuso
December 6, 2017
Saw it 5 times on FxM. Compelling!
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