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    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) is a silent horror film directed by Robert Weine telling the story of Francis and his friend Alan encountering a somnambulist named Cesare that the strange Dr. Caligari claims can predict the future. When Alan asks about his future, Cesare says he will die by dawn, and he is found dead in the morning, making Francis suspect Cesare is guilty. The film was inspired by German Expressionist art and was meant to convey the dark feelings of post-World War 1 Germany through its twisted reality and grim environments.

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    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) is a silent horror film directed by Robert Weine telling the story of Francis and his friend Alan encountering a somnambulist named Cesare that the strange Dr. Caligari claims can predict the future. When Alan asks about his future, Cesare says he will die by dawn, and he is found dead in the morning, making Francis suspect Cesare is guilty. The film was inspired by German Expressionist art and was meant to convey the dark feelings of post-World War 1 Germany through its twisted reality and grim environments.

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    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) is a silent horror film directed by Robert Weine telling the story of Francis and his friend Alan encountering a somnambulist named Cesare that the strange Dr. Caligari claims can predict the future. When Alan asks about his future, Cesare says he will die by dawn, and he is found dead in the morning, making Francis suspect Cesare is guilty. The film was inspired by German Expressionist art and was meant to convey the dark feelings of post-World War 1 Germany through its twisted reality and grim environments.

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    The Cabinet of Dr.

    Caligari

    Fig. Original Cover art

    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) was directed by Robert Weine, it’s a silent
    horror film telling a story of an events that happened to. Francis (Friedrich
    Feher) and his friend Alan. When they both encounter a strange man that
    introduces them to his somnambulist, that the doctor claims can see into the
    future. When Alan asks about his future, Cesare tells him that he has till dawn,
    left. And by morning the prophecy has come true, making Francis start
    suspecting that Cesare might be guilty. At
    the final scenes of the film, it is implied
    that it all could be Francis imagination.
    Due to how the scenes are presented
    within the film

    Fig 1.Francis
    Weine took inspiration from a Die Brucke(The Bridge) that were known as
    German Expressionism school of artist’s.

    Fig 2. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Berlin


    (1913)

    The movement wanted to bridge


    past and the future, looking back into German’s rich artistic history. Looking at
    modern use of colours from Vincent Van Gogh.Using the bright and sometimes
    clashing colour’s to show different emotions in art.
    In conclusion, the film expresses the felling’s of the people after the World War
    one. By making its
    environment’s dark
    and grim, and the
    twisted reality of the
    characters that are
    part of such a world.

    Fig 3.The twisted


    reality
    Images
    Fig. Original Cover art
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cabinet_of_Dr._Caligari#/media/File:Das_Cabinet_des_D
    r._Caligari.JPG

    Fig 1.Francis https://films-muets.blogspot.com/2014/01/das-cabinet-des-dr-caligari-


    robert.html

    Fig 2. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Berlin (1913)


    https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/32

    Fig 3. The twisted reality https://criterioncast.com/reviews/blu-ray-reviews/scott-reviews-


    robert-wienes-the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari-masters-of-cinema-blu-ray-review

    Bibliography
    http://screenprism.com/insights/article/why-is-the-cabinet-of-dr.-caligari-
    considered-the-definitive-german-express (accessed 20 September)
    https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Cabinet-of-Dr-Caligari (accessed 20
    September)

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