Das cabinet des Dr. Caligari : ein filmspiel in 6 Akten
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✎ Suggest a correction"Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, it tells the story of an insane hypnotist (Werner Krauss) who uses a somnambulist (Conrad Veidt) to commit murders."--Wikipedia
Credits
- Cast
- Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Fehér, Lil Dagover, Hans Heinz v. Twardowski, Rudolph Lettinger; Hochschule für Musik Freiburg (composer (expression)); Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung (restorationist (expression)); Robert Wiene (film director); Carl Mayer (screenwriter); Hans Janowitz (screenwriter); Werner Krauss (actor); Conrad Veidt (actor); Friedrich Feher (actor); Lil Dagover (actor); Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (actor); Rudolph Lettinger (actor); Willy Hameister (director of photography); Hermann Warm (production designer); Walter Reimann (production designer); Walter Röhrig (production designer); DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid (composer (expression))
Complete catalog record
Alternate title: Title on container: Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Caligari: how horror came to the cinema. | Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (Motion picture)
Original source: "4K restoration scanned from the (mostly) preserved camera negative at the German Federal Film Archive"--container. | Originally released as a motion picture in 1920. | "The 4K restoration was created by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung in Wiesbaden from the original camera negative held a tthe B undesarchiv-Filmarchiv in Berlin. The first reel of the camera negative is missing and was completed from different prints. Jump cuts and missing frames in 67 shots were completed by different prints. A German distribution print is not existing, Basis for the colours were two nitrate prints from Latin America, which represent the earliest surviving prints. They are today at the Filmmuseum Dusseldorf and the Cineteca di Bologna. The intertitles wer resumed from the flashtitles in the camera negative and a 16mm print from 1935 from the Deutsche Kinemathek-Museum fur Film und Fernsehen in Berlin. The digital image restoration was carried out by L'Immagine Ritrovata-Film Conservation and Restoration in Bologna."--Opening credits. | Bonus features: Booklet essay by Kristin Thompson; Caligari: how horror came to the cinema (documentary, 52 min.); additional music score by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky; image gallery; restoration demonstration. | Photographer, Willy Hameister ; art direction, Hermann Warm, Walter Reimann, Walter Röhring; score, University of Music, Freiburg.
Release: New York, NY : Kino Classics, [2014]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound; black and white (color tinted) ; 4 3/4 in. | 4 3/4 in | monochrome | polychrome | NTSC | video file | DVD video | region 1
Contents: Contents: Special features: Booklet essay by Kristin Thompson ; Caligari : Horror came to the cinema documentary ; Additional music score by Paul D. Miller ; Image gallery
Subjects: Sleepwalking -- Drama | Circus performers -- Drama | Murder -- Drama | Hypnotism and crime -- Drama | Foreign films -- Germany | Silent films -- Germany | Horror films -- Germany | Motion pictures, German | DVDs | Circus performers | Hypnotism and crime | Murder | Sleepwalking
Country: Germany
Language note: Silent, with German intertitles and optional English subtitles and 2 added musical scores.
Original source: "4K restoration scanned from the (mostly) preserved camera negative at the German Federal Film Archive"--container. | Originally released as a motion picture in 1920. | "The 4K restoration was created by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung in Wiesbaden from the original camera negative held a tthe B undesarchiv-Filmarchiv in Berlin. The first reel of the camera negative is missing and was completed from different prints. Jump cuts and missing frames in 67 shots were completed by different prints. A German distribution print is not existing, Basis for the colours were two nitrate prints from Latin America, which represent the earliest surviving prints. They are today at the Filmmuseum Dusseldorf and the Cineteca di Bologna. The intertitles wer resumed from the flashtitles in the camera negative and a 16mm print from 1935 from the Deutsche Kinemathek-Museum fur Film und Fernsehen in Berlin. The digital image restoration was carried out by L'Immagine Ritrovata-Film Conservation and Restoration in Bologna."--Opening credits. | Bonus features: Booklet essay by Kristin Thompson; Caligari: how horror came to the cinema (documentary, 52 min.); additional music score by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky; image gallery; restoration demonstration. | Photographer, Willy Hameister ; art direction, Hermann Warm, Walter Reimann, Walter Röhring; score, University of Music, Freiburg.
Release: New York, NY : Kino Classics, [2014]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound; black and white (color tinted) ; 4 3/4 in. | 4 3/4 in | monochrome | polychrome | NTSC | video file | DVD video | region 1
Contents: Contents: Special features: Booklet essay by Kristin Thompson ; Caligari : Horror came to the cinema documentary ; Additional music score by Paul D. Miller ; Image gallery
Subjects: Sleepwalking -- Drama | Circus performers -- Drama | Murder -- Drama | Hypnotism and crime -- Drama | Foreign films -- Germany | Silent films -- Germany | Horror films -- Germany | Motion pictures, German | DVDs | Circus performers | Hypnotism and crime | Murder | Sleepwalking
Country: Germany
Language note: Silent, with German intertitles and optional English subtitles and 2 added musical scores.
Sources
- UCLA Library Catalog · record ↗ — title, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record
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