The audience of 1920 had never seen anything like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Some viewers fainted ... as Cesare—to pitch their performances in a distorted, expressionist style. (Krauss remained ...

With the 1920 release of Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, German Expressionist cinema hit its first peak amid a climate of nationwide economic, political, and spiritual despair.

On February 26 1920 Robert Wienes worldfamous film The Cabinet of Dr Caligari premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin To this day it is considered a manifesto of German expressionism a legend of ...