Dr. Caligari, insanely driven to see if such a situation could actually occur, deemed himself " Caligari " and has since successfully carried out his string of proxy murders.

Mabuse also appears with his fellow silent movie characters in Newman's novel The Bloody Red Baron, in which he, Caligari, Rotwang, Count Orlok and others attempt to create the Red Baron.

She first appears in The Carnivorous Carnival, in which she is employed at the Caligari Carnival in the House of Freaks.

He first appears in The Carnivorous Carnival, in which he is employed at the Caligari Carnival in the House of Freaks.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1919 ), directed by Robert Wiene, is usually credited as the first German expressionist film.

There was an Expressionist style in the cinema, important examples of which are Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1920 ), The Golem: How He Came into the World ( 1920 ), Fritz Lang's Metropolis ( 1927 ) and F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror ( 1922 ) and The Last Laugh ( 1924 ).

Classic examples are The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1920 ), Nosferatu ( 1922 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1939 ), The Devil and Daniel Webster ( 1941 ) and the black and white scenes in Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker ( 1979 ).

The two friends visit a carnival in their German mountain village of Holstenwall, where they encounter the captivating Dr. Caligari ( Werner Krauss ) and a near-silent somnambulist, Cesare ( Conrad Veidt ), whom the doctor keeps asleep in a coffin-like cabinet, controls hypnotically, and is displaying as an attraction.

Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1920 ), and F. W.

Other notable science fiction films of the silent era include The Impossible Voyage ( 1904 ), The Motorist ( 1906 ), Conquest of the Pole ( 1912 ), Himmelskibet ( 1918 ), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1919 ), L ' Huomo Meccanico ( 1921 ), Paris Qui Dort ( 1923 ), Aelita ( 1924 ), Luch Smerti ( 1925 ) and The Lost World ( 1925 ).

Hans Walter Conrad Veidt ( 22 January 1893 – 3 April 1943 ) was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1919 ), The Man Who Laughs ( 1928 ), The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 ) and Casablanca ( 1942 ).

Among the first Expressionist films, The Student of Prague ( 1913 ), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1920 ), The Golem: How He Came Into the World ( 1920 ), Destiny ( 1921 ), Nosferatu ( 1922 ), Phantom ( 1922 ), Schatten ( 1923 ), and The Last Laugh ( 1924 ), were highly symbolic and stylized.

* 1920 – The first German Expressionist film and early horror movie, Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, premièred in Berlin.

Florey, with the help of cinematographer Karl Freund and elaborate sets representing 19th century Paris, made Murders into an American version of German expressionist films such as Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1920 ).

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari () is a 1920 German silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene from a screenplay by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer.

Pommer put Caligari in the hands of designer Hermann Warm and painters Walter Reimann and Walter Röhrig, whom he had met as a soldier while painting sets for a German military theater.

Siegfried Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler ( 1947 ) postulates that the film can be considered as an allegory for German social attitudes in the period following World War I.

* Wiene, Robert ; Mayer, Carl and Janowitz, Hans ( 1984 ) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: A Film ( revised edition, translated from German by R. V. Adkinson ) Lorrimer, London, ISBN 0-85647-084-8

It is a major plot element in the classic silent German Expressionist film Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari ( English title: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ).

His own projects include Mark Dresser's " Force Green ," and the Mark Dresser Trio, performing his music for the French Surrealist film masterpiece of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, Un chien andalou as well as the German expressionist silent film classic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

" Desson Thomson of The Washington Post enjoyed stylistic features in common with Oscar Wilde, German Expressionism, the Brothers Grimm and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

* The Caligari Carnival is an allusion to the German expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

Decla's former owner, Erich Pommer, served as producer for the 1920 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, which was not only the best example of German Expressionism and an enormously influential film, but also a commercial success.

: Imagine a fairy tale conceived by Wagner and directed by Fritz Lang, with nods in the direction of The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari and German expressionism, and you'd be close.

* One of von Twardowski's first film appearances was in the classic silent German expressionist horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1920 ).

The title of the series is a reference to the 1919 German Expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

His most memorable feature films are the 1920 horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Raskolnikow ( 1923 ), an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, both of which had a deep influence on the German cinema of that time.

* Anna Quayle as Frau Hoffner – Frau Hoffner is Mata Hari's teacher, portrayed as a parody of Cesare in the German Expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( her school is modelled on the film's expressionist decor ).

From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film is a book by film critic and writer Siegfried Kracauer, published in 1947.

Funded by Museum of Modern Art as well as a Rockefeller Foundation grant, From Caligari to Hitler was considered by many to be one of the most important works on the subject of German cinema, standing with Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality ( 1960 ) as classic scholarship.

Cesare nearly does so, revealing to Francis the almost certain connection of Cesare and his master Caligari to the recent homicides ; however, Cesare refuses to go through with the killing because of Jane's beauty and he instead carries her out of her house, pursued by the townsfolk.

In the meantime, Francis goes to the local insane asylum to ask if there has ever been a patient there by the name of Caligari, only to be shocked to discover that Caligari is the asylum's director.

He argues that the character of Caligari represents a tyrannical figure, to whom the only alternative is social chaos ( represented by the fairground ).

In 1936, Bela Lugosi, while filming in England, was offered the part of " Caligari " in a sound remake, but returned to work in the U. S. During the 1940s, writer Hans Janowitz seemed close to selling his rights in a script to be directed by Fritz Lang, but neither that nor his plans for a sequel, Caligari II, came to fruition.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari premiered at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in a production by Robert McGrath.

A musical theatre adaptation of " The Cabinet of Dr Caligari ", with book by Richard Lawton and Douglas Hicton, music and lyrics by Hicton, produced by John Chatterton, and directed by David Leidholdt, debuted Friday 13 July 2001 at the New 42nd Street Theatre in New York, as part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival.

A radio version is published by Blackstone Audio featuring John de Lancie as " Franz ", Tony Jay as " Caligari ", Jane Carr, Robertson Dean, Kaitlin Hopkins, James Otis, and Lorna Raver, written, produced and directed by Yuri Rasovsky.

On October 26, 2008, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a dramatization entitled Caligari, adapted from the film by Amanda Dalton and directed by Susan Roberts.

A film with a very similar title, The Cabinet of Caligari, written by Robert Bloch, was made in 1962, claimed to be inspired by the original film.

In the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Gunfighters, the name Doctor Caligari was used by the First Doctor when he arrived in Tombstone, Arizona, impersonating a magician.

There is strong influence of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari on the concept of the 2009 fantasy film The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, by Terry Gilliam as well as on the book Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane on which the eponymous movie by Martin Scorsese is based.

In 2012 Martyn Jacques, the founder, songwriter and frontman of cult British trio The Tiger Lillies chose " The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari " as the theme for his first ever solo show which premiered at historic Warsaw cinema Kino Luna, followed by a three week run at London's Soho Theatre which was met with great enthusiasm by audience and critics.