This film is the first analyzed in Lotte Eisner's bookThe Haunted Screen, which declared its director's follow-up to it, Genuine, a "failure.
This film was termed a "barbaric carnival of the destruction of the healthy human infancy of our art" bya Russian director in his essay collection Film Form. This film is the first analyzed in Lotte Eisner's bookThe Haunted Screen, which declared its director's follow-up to it, Genuine, a "failure." One thinker arguedthat the addition of a frame story to this film transformed its revolutionary capacity into one of conformism.This film's title character represents a certain (*) country's subconscious need for a tyrant according to a"psychological history" tracing Weimar cinema from this film to Hitler, that was written by Siegfried Kracauer.At the end of this film, it is revealed that its narrator, Francis, is an inmate at an insane asylum. For 10 points,name this Robert Wiene film about an insane hypnotist who uses a sleepwalker to kill people, an early GermanExpressionist horror film.
This film was termed a "barbaric carnival of the destruction of the healthy human infancy of our art" bya Russian director in his essay collection Film Form.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari [or Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari]