The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari (4K Restoration) (1919) On DVD

Actor :       Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover, Hans von Twardowski
Director:   Robert Wiene
Genre:       Silents
Year:         1919
Studio:      Kino Lorber films
Length:     75
Released: November 18, 2014
Rating:      Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:     DVD
Misc:          Color
Language:German
Subtitles : English

DESCRIPTION:

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.