THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI

Special Screening

Born in Breslau, Germany, in 1873. Famous expressionist filmmaker from silent movie era, he made his first short movie, Die Waffen der Jugend (the youth guns, translated from German), in 1913. For 25 years, during his career as a film director, he released around 50 movies, but it was with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, considered the first expressionist movie, that eternalized his name. Wiene directed many other influential expressionist films, but also made movies in different styles and genres, including Crime and Punishment (1923), an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s homonymous book. Following the rise of Nazism in Germany, Wiene, who was of Jewish descent, fled into exile and settled in Paris. There, he continued to make movies, and even tried to film a new version of Caligari with Jean Cocteau. His last film, Ultimatum, was released in 1938, the same year of his death in Paris, France.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA