#Werner Krauss

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Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, and Lil Dagover in Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)

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I saw this meme a while ago, and have felt the urge ever since to Caligari-fy it.

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

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1926 New Yorker magazine illustration and advertisement for the silent horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, to be featured at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse on 66 Fifth Avenue in NYC. The illustration reads, "The very rotund and kindly-looking old gentleman can be seen at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse. He is about to waken his friend, who will stretch a bit and go out and commit a murder or two." ;D The advertisement reads, "The U.F.A. Masterpiece, with a delightful program including a Chaplin revival." https://archive.org/details/sim_the-new-yorker_1926-11-13_2_39/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/sim_the-new-yorker_1926-11-20_2_40/mode/2up

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The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari (1920) // Dir. Robert Wiene

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'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' 1920. Starring Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss and Lil Dagover.

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) (1920) Robert Wiene

August 10th 2024

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on October 22 via Kino Lorber. Known in its native German as Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, the 1920 silent horror classic has been restored in 4K.

Robert Wiene directs from a script by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, and Rudolf Lettinger star.

Three audio options are included: 2024 orchestral score by Jeff Beal (House of Cards), 2014 orchestral score by Studio for Film Music at the University of Music Freiburg, and 2014 electronic score by DJ Spooky.

Read on for the special features.

Special features:

Audio commentary by composer Jeff Beal

Caligari: How Horror Came to the Cinema

Restoration Demonstration

A demented doctor and a carnival sleepwalker perpetrate a series of ghastly murders in a small community.

Pre-order The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

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As announced in the previous post, here are the photos of the pamphlet of the film Danton (1921).

Front row, from left, Westermann (Eduard von Winterstein), Camille (Ossip Runitsch), Danton (Emil Jannings) and Hérault (Ferdinand von Alten)

From left, Fouquier-Tinville (Friedrich Kühne), Saint-Just (Robert Scholz) and Robespierre (Werner Krauss)

Babette (OC in the film played by Hilde Wörner and not related to Elisabeth Le Bas), Danton, Camille, and Hérault

And this is the cover (Camille, Danton, and Babette):

I found it on eBay about a year ago. I can't read Danish, but I got it because documents on this film are rare. (I used Google Translate to read the text, which was more about the historical Danton's life than about the film).

There are problems with historical accuracy (as I mentioned before), but I am fascinated by the dark romantic images in this film, influenced by German Expressionism.

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Werner Krauss in Der Student von Prag (1926)

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) / Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari

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Love when two actors have the same dynamic in two different projects:

Conrad Veidt + Werner Krauss = Cesare and Caligari in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and Balduin and Scapinelli in The Student of Prague

Reeve Carney + Patrick Page = Peter and the Green Goblin in Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark, and Orpheus and Hades in Hadestown

(All 4 of these dynamics are the same, powerful old man oppressing pathetic young man. One of my favorite dynamics lol)

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1928 Brazilian advertisement for silent horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. From Correio da Manhã newspaper.

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I've been working on a presentation for work about silent films (not in any way relevant to the job, but I was asked to do a presentation on something fun so I figured what the hell), and it's caused me to really appreciate The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari even more. I already love the movie but really analyzing it it's clear that the range of performances on display is fantastic. Conrad Veidt as Cesare is so stilted and zombie like that he was probably the prototype for Frankenstein and the zombie genre at large. Werner Krauss as Caligari is just so creepy and decrepit that he's every mad scientist at once. Even the "normal" characters that are just regular people emote so much and portray fear and insanity in such a terrifying way.

F.W. Murnau (actually it was Robert Wiene, I mixed him up with Murnau since the latter did Nosferatu) knew that the acting had to be able to carry itself just from facial expression and physical presence alone and he got some damn fine work from his actors.

The movie is in the public domain, so go watch it! There are a lot of great restorations out there.