Invincible Czars: The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari

Invincible Czars: The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari | 67mins |

Showings

Capri Theatre Wed, Oct 2, 2019 8:00 PM
Film Info
Release Year:1920
Runtime:67
Cast/Crew Info
Cast:Werner Krauss
Conrad Veidt
Friedrich Feher
Director:Robert Wiene
Social Media
Website:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cabinet_of_Dr._Caligari

Description

The Invincible Czars return for a one-night live performace of their original score to the silent film classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

This masterpiece of German Expressionism tells the story of an insane hypnotist who uses a somnambulist to commit murders. The film features a dark and twisted visual style, with sharp-pointed forms, oblique and curving lines, structures and landscapes that lean and twist in unusual angles, and shadows and streaks of light painted directly onto the sets.

Roger Ebert called it arguably "the first true horror film", and film reviewer Danny Peary called it cinema's first cult film and a precursor for arthouse films. Considered a classic, it helped draw worldwide attention to the artistic merit of German cinema and had a major influence on American films, particularly in the genres of horror and film noir.