Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari

DAS KABINETT DES DR. CALIGARI

(The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari)

Germany, 1920

Director: Robert Wiene

Production: Decla Filmgellschaft (Berlin); black and white, 35mm, silent, originally tinted in green, brown, and steely-blue; length: 4682 feet. Released February 1920, Berlin. Filmed Winter 1919 in Decla studios; cost $18,000.

Producer: Erich Pommer; screenplay: Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz, from an original story by Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz; photography: Willy Hameister; production designers: Hermann Warm, Walter Reimann, and Walter Röhrig; costume designer: Walter Reimann.

Cast: Werner Krauss ( Dr. Caligari ); Conrad Veidt ( Cesare ); Friedrich Feher ( Francis ); Lil Dagover ( Jane ); Hans Heinz von Twardowski ( Alan ); Rudolf Lettinger ( Dr. Olsen ); Rudolph Klein-Rogge ( Criminal ).

Publications

Script:

Mayer, Carl, and Hans Janowitz, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari , edited by Robert Adkinson, New York, 1972; also included in Masterworks of the German Cinema , edited by Roger Manvell, London and New York, 1973.

Books:

Kracauer, Siegfried, From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Cinema , Princeton, 1947.

Wollenberg, Hans H., 50 Years of German Cinema , London, 1948.

Huaco, George A., The Sociology of Film Art , New York, 1965.

Eisner, Lotte, The Haunted Screen , Berkeley, 1969.

Manvell, Roger, and Heinrich Fraenkel, The German Cinema , New York, 1971.

Everson, William K., Classics of the Horror Film , Secaucus, New Jersey, 1974.

Laqueur, Walter, Weimar: A Cultural History 1918–1933 , New York, 1974.

Prawer, S. S., Caligari's Children: The Film as Tale of Terror , New York, and Oxford, 1980.

Barton, John D., German Expressionist Film , Boston, 1982.

Brunner, Stephen Eric, and Douglas Kenner, Passion and Rebellion: The Expressionist Heritage , London, 1983.

Budd, Mike, editor, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: Texts, Contexts, Histories , New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1990.

Hardt, Ursula, From Caligari to California: Eric Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars , New York, 1996.

Robinson, David, Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari , London, 1998.

Jung, Uli, and Walter Schatzberg, Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene , New York, 1999.

Articles:

New York Times , 4 April 1921.

Variety (New York), 8 April 1921.

Kracauer, Siegfried, in Partisan Review (New Brunswick, New Jersey), March-April 1947.

Melnitz, William, "Aspects of War and Revolution in the Theater and Film of the Weimar Republic," in Hollywood Quarterly , no.3, 1948–49.

Luft, Herbert, in Quarterly of Film, Radio, and Television (Berkeley), Summer 1954.

Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari

Pegge, C. Denis, " Caligari : Its Innovations in Editing," in Quarterly of Film, Radio, and Television (Berkeley), Winter 1956.

Lightman, Herb A., "From Caligari to Caligari ," in American Cinematographer (Hollywood), July 1962.

Whitford, Frank, "Expressionism in the Cinema," in Studio International (Lugano), January 1970.

Helman, A., "Robert Wiene czyli pozory niefilmowosci," in Kino (Warsaw), April 1974.

Clement, Catherine, "Les Charlatans et les hysteriques," in Communications (Paris), no.23, 1975.

" Caligari et la critique," in Avant-Scène du Cinéma (Paris), July-September 1975.

Carroll, Noël, "The Cabinet of Dr. Kracauer," in Millenium (New York), no. 2, Spring-Summer 1978.

Budd, M., "Retrospective Narration in Film: Re-Reading The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ," in Film Criticism (Edinboro, Pennsylvania), no.1, 1979.

Combs, Richard, in Monthly Film Bulletin (London), June 1979.

Mazowa, M., "Sleepwalking Through Weimar," in Stills (London), Spring 1981.

Budd, M., in Ciné-Tracts (Montreal), Winter 1981.

Warm, Hermann, "Naissance de Caligari: Les Trois Lumières," in Cinématographe (Paris), February 1982.

Simsolo, Noël, in Image et Son (Paris), October 1982.

Cardullo, B., "Expressionism and the Real Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," in Film Criticism (Edinboro, Pennsylvania), Winter 1982.

Tomasulo, F., " Cabinet of Dr. Caligari : History/Psychoanalysis/Cinema," in On Film (Los Angeles), Summer 1983.

Budd, Michael, "Authorship as a Commodity: The Art Cinema and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ," in Wide Angle (Athens, Ohio), vol.6, no.1, 1984.

Gout, C., in Skoop (Amsterdam), September-October 1984.

Ahlander, L., "Filmhistoriskt nytt: Dr. Caligari och Queen Kelly ," in Chaplin (Stockholm), 1985.

Williams, D., " The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: The Remake," in Film Threat (Beverly Hills), no. 20, 1989.

Weihsmann, H., "Die vierte dimension—architektur im film," in Blimp (Graz, Austria), Summer 1989.