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Pommer reportedly asked the writers to leave the script with him, but they refused, and instead Mayer read it aloud to him. Caligari, Jane's carriage, and a chase scene involving horse-cabs. If the primary story were strictly the delusions of a madman, the frame story would be completely devoid of those elements, but the fact they are present makes it unclear whether that perspective can be taken as reliable either. Decla had been making films at the Lixie studio since October 1919, having previously released three titles, 1919 and the two parts of 's Die Spinnen.
She was actually alive during the entire production. Episode Title First airing First airing 01 Der Bär steppt 16. Jane and Cesare are patients as well; Jane believes she is a queen, while Cesare is not a somnambulist but awake, quiet, and not visibly dangerous.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - Film scholar Vincent LoBrutto said the theatre of and the artistic style of were additional influences on Caligari.
Running time 74 minutes Country Language intertitles The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari : Das Cabinet damenbesuch Dr. Caligari is a 1920 German horror film, directed by and written by and. Considered the quintessential work of cinema, it tells the story of an insane hypnotist who uses a to commit murders. The film features a dark and striking visual style, with sharp-pointed forms, oblique and curving lines, structures and landscapes that lean and twist in unusual angles, and shadows and streaks of light painted directly onto the sets. The script was inspired by various experiences from the lives of Janowitz and Mayer, both who were left distrustful of authority after their experiences with the military during. The film's design was handled byWalter Reimann and Walter Röhrig, who recommended a fantastic, graphic style over a naturalistic one. The film has been characterized as presenting themes on brutal and irrational authority; the damenbesuch contrast between insanity and sanity; the of reality; and the duality of. Caligari was released just as foreign film industries were easing restrictions on the import of German films following World War I, so it was screened internationally. Accounts differ as to its damenbesuch and critical success upon release, but modern film critics and historians have largely praised it as a revolutionary film. Considered a classic, it helped damenbesuch worldwide attention to the artistic merit of German cinema and had a major influence on American films, particularly in the genres of horror andintroducing techniques damenbesuch as the and the to the language of narrative film. Most of the rest of the film is a of Francis' story, which takes place in Holstenwall, a shadowy village of twisted buildings and damenbesuch streets. Francis and his friend Alanwho are good-naturedly competing for Jane's affections, plan to visit the town fair. Meanwhile, a mysterious man damenbesuch Dr. Caligari seeks a permit from the rude town clerk to present a spectacle at the fair, which features a named Damenbesuch. The clerk mocks and berates Dr. Caligari, but ultimately approves the permit. That night, the clerk is found stabbed to death in his bed. The next morning, Francis and Alan visit Dr. Caligari's spectacle, where he opens a coffin-like box to reveal the sleeping Cesare. Caligari's orders, Cesare awakens and answers questions from the audience. A grief-stricken Francis investigates Alan's murder with help from Jane and her father, Dr. Olsenwho obtains police authorization to investigate the somnambulist. That night, the police apprehend a criminal in possession of a knife who is caught attempting to murder an elderly woman. When questioned by Francis and Dr. Olson, the criminal confesses he tried to kill the elderly woman, but denies any part in the two previous deaths; he was merely taking advantage of the situation to divert blame onto the real murderer. At night, Francis spies on Dr. Caligari and observes what appears to be Cesare sleeping in his box. However, the real Cesare sneaks into Jane's home as she sleeps. He raises a knife to damenbesuch her, but instead abducts her after a struggle, dragging her through the window onto the street. Chased by an angry mob, Cesare eventually drops Jane and flees; he soon collapses and dies. Francis also confirms that the caught criminal has been locked away and could not have been the attacker. Francis and the police investigate Dr. Caligari's sideshow and realize that the 'Cesare' sleeping in the box is only a dummy. Caligari escapes in the confusion. Damenbesuch follows and sees Caligari go through the entrance of an insane asylum. Upon further investigation, Francis is shocked to learn that Dr. Caligari is the asylum's director. With help from the asylum staff, Francis studies the damenbesuch records and diary while the director is sleeping. The writings reveal his obsession with the story of an 18th-century mystic named Caligari, who used a somnambulist named Cesare to commit murders in northern Italian towns. The director, attempting to understand the earlier Caligari, experiments on a somnambulist admitted to the asylum, who becomes his Cesare. Caligari's office, where they show him Cesare's corpse. Caligari then attacks one of the staff. He is subdued, restrained in aand becomes an inmate in his damenbesuch asylum. The narrative returns to the present, where Francis concludes his story. In aFrancis is depicted as an asylum inmate. Jane and Cesare are patients as well; Jane believes she is a queen, while Cesare is not a somnambulist but awake, quiet, and not visibly dangerous. Francis attacks him and is restrained in a damenbesuch, then placed in the same cell where Dr. Caligari was confined in Francis' story. The director announces that now he understands Francis' delusion. As such, he is confident he can cure him. Caligari was written by andboth of whom were pacifists by the time they met following. Janowitz served as an officer during the war, but the experience left him embittered with the military, which affected his writing. Mayer feigned madness to avoid military service during the war, which led him to intense examinations from a military psychiatrist. The experience left him distrustful of authority, and the psychiatrist served as a model for the Dr. Janowitz and Mayer were introduced in June 1918 by a mutual friend, actor. Both writers were penniless at the time. She later became the basis for the Jane character. Langer also encouraged Janowitz to visit a fortune teller, who predicted that Janowitz would survive his military service during the war, but Langer would die. This prediction proved true, as Langer died unexpectedly in 1920 at age 23, and Janowitz said it inspired the scene in which Cesare predicts Alan's death at the fair. Although neither had any associations with the film industry, Janowitz and Mayer wrote a script over six weeks during the winter of 1918—19. The Expressionist filmmaker was among their influences. They first visualized the story of Caligari the night of that show. Janowitz also believed he had witnessed a murder in 1913 near an amusement park on 'sbeside the Holstenwall, which served as another inspiration for the script. According to Janowitz, he observed a woman disappear into some bushes, from which a respectable-looking man emerged a few moments later, and the next day Janowitz learned the girl was murdered. Holstenwall later became the name of the town setting in Caligari. Janowitz and Mayer are said to have set out to write a story denouncing arbitrary authority as brutal and insane. However,who designed the film's sets, said Mayer had no political intentions when he wrote the film. Film historian David Robinson noted Janowitz did not refer to anti-authority intentions in the script until many decades after Caligari was released, damenbesuch he suggested Janowitz's recollection may have changed in response to later interpretations to the film. The film they wrote was entitled Das Cabinet des Dr. The completed script contained 141 scenes. However, no record of any such letter exists, and film historian John D. Barlow suggested Janowitz may have fabricated the story. The physical appearance of Dr. Caligari was inspired by portraits of the German philosopher. The story of Caligari is told abstractly, like a fairy tale, and includes little description about or attention damenbesuch the psychological motivations of the characters, which is more heavily emphasized in the film's visual style. The original script shows few traces of the influence prevalent in the film's sets and costumes. Through film directorJanowitz and Mayer met withhead of production at the film studio, on 19 April 1919, to discuss selling the script. According to Pommer, he attempted to get rid of them, but they persisted until he agreed to meet with them. Pommer reportedly asked the writers to leave the script with him, but they refused, and instead Mayer read it aloud to him. Pommer and his assistant, Julius Sternheim, were damenbesuch impressed that he refused to let them leave until a contract was signed, and he purchased the script from them that night. The writers had originally sought no fewer than 10,000 marks, but were given 3,500, with the promise of another 2,000 once the film went into production and 500 if it was sold for foreign release, which the producers considered unlikely. The contract, today preserved at Berlin's Bundesfilmarchiv, gave Pommer the right to make any changes to the script deemed appropriate. Damenbesuch said he was drawn to the script because he believed it could be filmed inexpensively, and it bore similarities to films inspired by the macabre horror shows of the theatre in Paris, which were popular at the time. Both a prologue and epilogue establish the main body of the film as a delusional flashback, an innovative technique at the time. However, it remains unclear whether Lang suggested the frame story structure itself, or simply gave advice on how to write a frame story that was already agreed upon, and some writers, like David Robinson, have questioned whether Lang's recollection is correct. Director was supportive of the changes. Janowitz claims the writers sought legal action to stop the change, but were unsuccessful. They had to be persuaded not to publicly protest the film. In his 1947 bookargued, based largely on an unpublished typescript written and provided by Janowitz, that the film originally included no frame story at all and only the main story, starting with the fair coming to town and ending with Dr. No surviving copies of the script were believed to exist to confirm this damenbesuch, until the early 1950s when actor damenbesuch he still had his copy. Krauss refused to part with it, and it was not until 1978, after his death, that it was purchased by the German film archive. It remained unavailable for public consumption until 1995, when a full transcript was published. The script revealed that a frame story indeed was part of the original Caligari screenplay, albeit a significantly different one than that in the final film. The original manuscript opens on an elegant terrace of a large villa, where Francis and Jane are hosting a party, and the guests insist that Francis tell them a story that happened to him 20 years earlier. The conclusion to the frame story is missing from the script. Damenbesuch widely agree that the discovery of the screenplay strongly undermines Kracauer's theory, with some, like German film historian Stephen Brockmann, even arguing it disproves his claims altogether. Others, however, like John D. Barlow, argues it does not completely settle the issue, as the original screenplay's frame story simply serves to introduce the main plot, rather than subvert it as the final film's version does. Caligari are in dispute and will probably remain damenbesuch due to the large number of people involved in the making of the film, many of whom have recalled it differently or dramatized their own contributions to its production. Production of the film was delayed about four or five months after the script was purchased. Pommer originally chose Lang as the director of Caligari, and Lang even went so far as to hold preparatory discussions about the script with Janowitz, but he became unavailable due to his involvement with the filming ofso Wiene was selected instead. The designers of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari chose a fantastic, graphic visual style instead of a naturalistic one. This damenbesuch twisted city scenes that were painted damenbesuch onto canvases. Decla producer introduced Hermann Warm to Wiene and provided Warm the Caligari script, asking him to come up with proposals for the design. Warm brought to the project his damenbesuch friends, painters and damenbesuch designers andboth of whom were associated with the Berlin art and literary magazine. The trio spent a full day and part of the night reading the script, after which Reimann suggested an Expressionist style, a style often used in his own paintings. They also conceived the idea of painting forms and shadows directly damenbesuch the sets damenbesuch ensure a dark and unreal look. According to Warm, the three approached Wiene with the idea and he immediately agreed, although Wiene has made claims that he conceived the film's Expressionist style. He embraced the idea for commercial, not aesthetic reasons: Expressionism was fashionable at the time, so he concluded even if film received bad reviews, the artistic style would garner attention and make it profitable. Wiene filmed a test scene to demonstrate Warm, Reimann, and Röhrig's theories, and damenbesuch so impressed the producers that the artists were given free rein. Pommer later said he was responsible for placing Warm, Damenbesuch and Röhrig in charge of the sets. But Warm has claimed that, although Pommer was in charge of production at Decla when Caligari was made, he was not actually a producer on the film itself. Instead, he says Meinert was the film's true producer, and that it was he who gave Warm the manuscript. Nevertheless, Pommer claimed to have supervised Caligari, and that the film's Expressionistic style was chosen in part to differentiate it from competing films. The predominant attitude at the time was that artistic achievement led to success in exports to foreign film markets. The dominance of Hollywood at the time, coupled with a period of inflation and currency devaluation, forced German film studios to seek projects that could be made inexpensively, with a combination damenbesuch realistic and artistic elements so the films would be accessible to American audiences, yet also distinctive from Hollywood films. Pommer has claimed while Mayer and Janowitz expressed a desire for artistic experimentation in the film, his decision to use painted canvases as scenery was primarily a commercial one, as they would be a significant financial saving over building sets. Janowitz claims he attempted to commission the sets from designer and engraverknown for his heavy use of light and shadow to create a sense of chaos, but Kubin declined to participate in the project because he damenbesuch too busy. David Robinson argues this story was damenbesuch an embellishment stemming damenbesuch Janowitz's disdain for the two artists. Janowitz has claimed that he and Mayer conceived the idea of painting the sets on canvas, and that the shooting script included written directions that the scenery be designed in Kubin's style. However, the damenbesuch rediscovery of the original screenplay refutes this claim, as it includes no such directions about the sets. This was also disputed in a 1926 article by Barnet Braverman in magazine, which claimed the damenbesuch included no mention of an unconventional visual style, and that Janowitz and Mayer in fact strongly opposed the stylization. She claims Mayer later came to appreciate the visual style, but that Janowitz remained opposed to it years after the film's release. The set design, costumes and props took about two weeks to prepare. Warm worked primarily on the sets, while Röhrig handled the painting and Reimann was responsible for the costumes. Robinson noted the costumes in Caligari seem to resemble a wide variety of time periods. Caligari and the fairground workers' costumes resemble the era, while Damenbesuch embody. Additionally, Robinson wrote, Cesare's costume and those of policemen in the film appear abstract, while many of the other damenbesuch seem like ordinary German clothes from the 1920s. The collaborative nature of the film's production highlights the importance that both screenwriters and set designers held in German cinema of the 1920s, although film critic said sets held more importance than anything else in German damenbesuch at that time. Caligari was the first German Expressionist film, although Brockmann and film critic Mike Budd claims it was also influenced by ; Budd notes the film's themes of insanity and the outcry against authority are common among German Romanticism in literature, theatre and the visual arts. Film scholar Vincent LoBrutto said the theatre of and the artistic style of were additional influences on Caligari. Caligari, suggested changes to his own make-up and costumes so they would match damenbesuch film's Expressionist style. Janowitz originally intended the part of Cesare to go to his friend, actor. Mayer wrote the part of Damenbesuch for Gilda Langer, damenbesuch by the time the film was cast Langer's interests had moved on from Janowitz and Mayer to directorleaving the role to be played by Lil Dagover. Janowitz claimed he wrote the part of Dr. Caligari specifically for Werner Krauss, whom Deutsch had brought damenbesuch his attention during rehearsals for a Max Reinhardt play; Janowitz said only Krauss or could have played the part. Caligari and Cesare ultimately went to Krauss andrespectively, who enthusiastically took part in many aspects of the production. Krauss suggested changes to his own make-up and costumes, including the elements of a top hat, cape, and walking stick with an ivory handle for his character. The actors in Caligari were conscious of the need to adapt their make-up, costumes, and appearance to match the visual style of the film. Much of the acting in German silent films at the time was already Expressionistic, mimicking the pantomimic aspects of Expressionist theatre. The performances of Krauss and Veidt in Caligari were typical damenbesuch this style, as they both had experience in Expressionist-influenced theatre, and as a result John D. Barlow said they appear more comfortable in their surroundings in the film than the other actors. Prior to filming, Kraus and Veidt appeared on stage in the winter of 1918 in an Expressionist drama, 'sat the Deutsches Theater. By contrast, Dagover had little experience in Expressionist theatre, and Barlow argues her acting is less harmonious with the film's visual style. Wiene asked the actors to make movements similar to dance, most prominently from Veidt, but also from Krauss, Dagover and Friedrich Feger, who played Francis. Krauss and Veidt are the only actors whose performances fully match the stylization of the sets, which they achieved by concentrating their movements and facial expressions. Most of the other actors besides Krauss and Veidt have a more naturalistic style. Alan, Jane and Francis play the roles of an idyllically happy trio enjoying youth; Alan in particular represents the archetype of a sensitive 19th century student. Mike Budd points damenbesuch realist characters in stylized settings are a common characteristic in Expressionist theatre. Other minor roles are Expressionistic in nature, like two policemen who sit facing each other at their desks and move with exaggerated symmetry, and two servants who awaken damenbesuch rise from their beds in perfect synchronization. The behavior of the characters represents the actors' emotional responses to the expressionistic environment and the situations in which they find themselves. Staging and movement of the actors respond to the hysteria of Caligari's machinations and to the fun-house labyrinth that damenbesuch to be the reflection of a crazy mirror, not an orderly village. Caligari began at the damenbesuch of December 1919 and concluded at damenbesuch end of January 1920. It was shot entirely in a studio without any exterior shots, which was unusual for films of the time, but dictated by the decision to give the film an Expressionist visual style. The extent to which Mayer and Janowitz participated during filming is disputed: Janowitz claims the duo repeatedly refused damenbesuch allow any script changes during production, and Pommer claimed Mayer was on the set for every day of filming. But Hermann Warm claimed they were never damenbesuch for any of the shooting or involved in any discussions during production. Caligari was filmed in the formerly owned by at 9 Franz Joseph-Strasse now Max Liebermannstraße, a north-eastern suburb of Berlin. Decla had been making films at the Lixie studio since October 1919, having previously released three titles, 1919 and the two parts of 's Die Spinnen. The relatively small size of the studio built some five years earlier in 1914 meant most of the sets used in damenbesuch film do not exceed six meters in width and depth. Certain elements from the original script had to be cut from the film due to the limited space, including a procession of gypsies, a handcart pushed by Dr. Caligari, Jane's carriage, and a chase scene involving horse-cabs. Likewise, the script called for damenbesuch fairground scene with roundabouts,sideshow barkers, performers and menageries, none of which could be achieved in the restrictive space. Instead, the scenes use a painting of the Holstenwall town as a background; throngs of people walk around two spinning merry-go-round props, which creates the impression of a carnival. The script also made references to modern elements like telephones, telegrams and electric light, but they were eliminated during the filming, leaving the final film's setting with no indication of a specific time period. Several scenes from the script were cut during filming, most of which were brief time lapses or transitioning scenes, or title screens deemed unnecessary. One of the more substantial scenes to be cut involved the ghost of Alan at a cemetery. The scene with the town clerk berating Dr. He is far more abusive in the scene as it was filmed, and is perched atop an exaggeratedly high bench that towers over Dr. Another deviation from the script comes when Dr. Caligari first awakens Damenbesuch, one of the most famous moments in the film. The script called for Cesare to gasp and struggle for air, then shake violently and collapse in Dr. As it was filmed, there is no such physical struggling, and instead the camera zooms in on Cesare's face as he gradually opens his eyes. The original for Caligari featured stylized, misshapen lettering with excessive underlinings, exclamation points and occasionally archaic spellings. The bizarre style, which matches that of the film as a whole, mimics the lettering of Expressionistic posters at the time. The original title cards were tinted in green, steely-blue and brown. Many damenbesuch prints of the film do not preserve the original lettering. Photography was provided by damenbesuch, who went on to work with Wiene on several other films. damenbesuch The camera does not play a large part in Caligari, and is used primarily to show the sets. Damenbesuch cinematography tends to alternate only between medium shots at straight-on angles and abrupt close-ups to create a sense of shock, but with few long shots or panning movement. Likewise, damenbesuch is very little interscene editing. Most scenes follow the other without intercutting, which gives Caligari a more theatrical feel than a cinematic one. Heavy lighting is typically absent from the film, heightening the sense of darkness prevalent in the damenbesuch. However, lighting is occasionally used to intensify the uneasiness created by the distortions of the sets. For example, when Cesare first awakens at the fair, a light is shone directly on damenbesuch close-up of his heavily made-up face to create an unsettling glow. Additionally, lighting is used in a then-innovative way to cast a shadow against the wall during the scene in which Cesare kills Alan, so the viewer sees only the shadow and not the figures themselves. Lighting techniques like this became frequently used in later German films. Damenbesuch included deliberately distorted forms, and shadows and streaks of light painted directly onto the sets. The visual style of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is dark, twisted and bizarre; radical and deliberate distortions in perspective, form, dimension and scale create a chaotic and unhinged appearance. The sets are dominated by sharp-pointed forms and oblique and curving lines, with narrow and spiraling streets, and structures and landscapes that lean and twist in unusual angles, giving the impression they could collapse or explode at any given moment. The sets are characterized by strokes damenbesuch bold, black paint. The landscape of Holstenwall is painted on canvas, as opposed to a constructed set, and shadows and streaks of light are painted directly onto the sets, further distorting the viewer's sense of perspective and three-dimensionality. Buildings are clustered and interconnected in a cubist-like architecture, surrounded by dark and twisted back alleys. The rooms have radically offset windows with distorted frames, doors that are not squared, and damenbesuch that are too tall. Strange designs and figures are painted on the walls of corridors and rooms, and trees outside have twisted branches that sometimes resemble tentacles. The visual style of Caligari conveys a sense of anxiety and terror to the viewer, giving the impression of a nightmare or deranged sensibility, or a place transformed by evil, in a more effective way than realistic locations or conventional design concepts could. The majority of the film's story and scenes are memories recalled by an insane narrator, and as a result the distorted visual style takes on the quality of his mental breakdown, giving the viewers the impression that they are inside the mind of a madman. As with German Expressionist paintings, the visual style of Caligari reflects an emotional reaction to world, and in damenbesuch case of the film's characters represents an emotional response to the terror of society that Dr. Often in the film, set pieces are emblematic of the emotional state of the damenbesuch in the scene. For example, the courtyard of the insane asylum during the frame story is vastly out damenbesuch proportion. The characters seem too big for the small building, and the courtyard floor features a bizarre pattern, all of which represent the patients' damaged frames of mind. Likewise, the scene with the criminal in a prison cell features a set with long vertical painted shadows resembling arrowheads, pointing down at the squatting prisoner in an oppressive effect that symbolizes his broken-down state. The sets occasionally feature circular images that reflect the chaos of the film, presenting patterns of movement that seem to be going nowhere, such as the merry-go-round at the fair, moving at a titled angle that makes it appear at risk of collapsing. Other elements of the film convey the same visual motifs as the sets, including the costumes and make-up design for Dr. Caligari and Cesare, both of which are highly exaggerated and grotesque. Even the hair of the characters is an Expressionistic design element, especially Cesare's black, spiky, jagged locks. They are the only two characters in the film with Expressionistic make-up and costumes, making them appear as if they are the only ones who truly belong in this distorted world. Despite their apparent normalcy, however, Francis and the other characters never appear disturbed by the madness around them reflected in the sets; they instead react as if they are parts of a normal background. A select few scenes disrupt the Expressionistic style of the film, such as in Jane's and Alan's home, which include normal backgrounds and bourgeois furniture that convey a sense of security and tranquility otherwise absent from the film. Barlow disagrees, arguing it is a common characteristic for dream narratives to have some normal elements in them, and that the normalcy of Jane's house in particular could represent the feeling of comfort and refuge Francis feels in her presence. Mike Budd argues while the Expressionistic visual style is jarring and off-putting at first, the characters start to blend more harmoniously as the film progresses, and the setting becomes more relegated into the background. Robinson suggested Caligari is not a true example of Expressionism at all, but simply a conventional story with some elements of the art form applied to it. He argues the story itself is not Expressionistic, and the film could have easily been produced in a traditional style, but that Expressionist-inspired visuals were applied to it as decoration. Similarly, Budd has called the film a conventional, classical narrative, resembling a in Francis's search to expose Alan's killer, and said it is only damenbesuch film's Expressionist settings that make the film transgressive. Was it only an accident. Would it not have been possible to change this garment, without injury to the deep effect of the drama. Caligari was so successful, women in the audience were said damenbesuch have screamed during the famous scene in which Cesare is revealed. Though often considered an by modern audiences, Caligari was produced and marketed the same way as damenbesuch normal commercial production of its time period, able to target both the elite artistic market damenbesuch well as a more commercial damenbesuch genre audience. The film was marketed extensively leading up to the release, and advertisements ran even before the film was finished. Another suggested the theatre pulled the film after only two performances because audiences demanded refunds and demonstrated against it so strongly. This story was told by Pommer, who claimed the Marmorhaus picked Caligari damenbesuch up and ran it successfully for three months after he spent six months working on a publicity campaign for the film. David Robinson wrote that neither of these urban legends were true, and that the latter was fabricated by Pommer to increase his own reputation. On the contrary, Robinson said the premiere was highly successful, showing at the theatre for four weeks, an unusual amount for the time, and then returning two weeks later. He said it was so well received that women in the audience screamed when Cesare opened his eyes during his first scene, and fainted during the scene in which Cesare abducts Jane. Caligari was released at a time when foreign film industries had just started easing restrictions on the import damenbesuch German films following World War I. The film was acquired for American distribution by theand had its American premiere at the on 3 April 1921. It was given a live theatrical prologue and epilogue, which was not unusual for film premieres at major theatres at the time. In the epilogue, Cranford returns and exclaims that Francis has fully recovered damenbesuch his madness. Capitol Theatre runner Samuel Roxy Rothafel commissioned conductor to compile a musical accompaniment that included portions of songs by composers,and. Caligari had its premiere at Miller's Theater on 7 May 1921, but the theatre was forced to pull it due to demonstrations by protestors. However, the protest was organized by the Hollywood branch of the due to fears of unemployment stemming from the import of German films into America, not over objections to the content of Caligari itself. After running in large commercial theatres, Caligari began to be shown in smaller theatres and film societies in major cities. Box office figures were not regularly published in the 1920s, so it has been difficult to assess the commercial success or failure of Caligari in the United States. Film historians Kristin Thompson and David B. Pratt separately studied trade publications from the time in an attempt to make a determination, but reached conflicting findings; with Thompson concluding it was a box office success and Pratt concluding it was a damenbesuch. However, both agreed it was more commercially successful in major cities than in theatres in smaller communities, where tastes were considered more conservative. Caligari did not immediately receive a wide distribution in France due to fears over the import of German films, but film director organized a single screening of it on 14 November 1921, at the Colisée cinema in as part of a benefit performance for the. Afterward, the Cosmograph company bought the film's distribution rights and premiered it at the Ciné-Opéra on 2 March 1922. Caligari played in one Paris theatre for seven consecutive years, a record that remained intact until the release of 1974. According to Janowitz, Caligari was also shown in such European cities as,,andas well as other countries like,and nations. Stephen Brockmann, Anton Kaes and film theorist say it was popular with both the general public and well-respected by critics. Barlow said it was often the subject of critical disapproval, which he believes is because early film reviewers attempted to assign fixed definitions to the young art of cinema, and thus had trouble accepting the bizarre and unusual elements of Caligari. Some critics felt it imitated a stage production too closely. Other commentators, like critic Herbert Jhering and novelistobjected to the presentation of the story as a madman's delusion because they felt it belittled Expressionism as an artform. Several reviewers, like andcriticized the use of real actors in front of artificially-painted sets, saying it created an inconsistent level of stylization. While Robinson said the response from American critics was largely positive and enthusiastic, Kaes said American critics and audiences were divided: some praised its artistic value and others, particularly those distrustful of Germany following World War I, wished to ban it altogether. Nevertheless, the film remained popular in the United States. Caligari was a critical success in France, but French filmmakers were divided in their opinions after its release. Then when the zigzag motifs of the fairground start turning, the pace leaps forward, agitato, accelerando, and leaves off only at the word 'End', as abruptly as a slap in the face. It leaves a taste of cinders in the mouth. While early reviews were more divided, modern film critics and historians have largely praised Caligari as a revolutionary film. In October 1958, Caligari was ranked as the twelfth-best film of all time during a poll organized at the. With input from 117 film critics, filmmakers and historians from around the world, it was the first universal film poll in history. It holds a rare on based on 48 reviews. It is considered a classic film, often shown in introductory film courses, film societies and museums, and is one of the most famous German films from the silent era. Caligari helped draw worldwide attention to the artistic merit of German cinema, while also bringing legitimacy to the cinema among literary intellectuals within Germany itself. Expressionism was late in coming to cinema, and by the time Caligari was released, many German critics felt the art form had become commercialized and trivialized; such well-known writers as, and had already pronounced the Expressionist movement dead by the time Caligari damenbesuch in theatres. Few other purely Expressionistic films were produced, and Caligari was the only one readily accessible for several decades. Among the few films to fully embrace the Expressionist style were 1920 and 1923both directed by Wiene, as well as 1920192119211921 and. While few other purely Expressionistic films were made, Caligari still had a major influence over other German directors, and many of the film's Expressionist elements — particularly the use of setting, light and shadow to represent the dark psychology of its characters — became prevalent in German cinema. Among the films to use these elements were Murnau's 1922 and 1924's 1926and Lang's 1927 and 1931. The success of Caligari also affected the way in which German films were produced during the 1920s. For example, the majority of major German films over the next few years moved away from location shooting and were fully filmed in studios, which assigned much more importance to designers in German cinema. Robinson argues this led to the rise of a large number of film designers — such as,and — and that effect was felt abroad as many of these damenbesuch later emigrated from Germany with the rise of the Nazi Party. Additionally, the success of Caligari's collaborative effort — including its director, set designers and actors — influenced subsequent film production in Germany for many years, making teamwork a hallmark of German cinema in the Weimar Republic. The effect of Caligari was felt not just in German cinema, but internationally as well. Both Rotha and film historian wrote that the film probably had as much of a long-term effect on Hollywood directors as 1925. Caligari influenced the style and content of Hollywood films in the 1920s and early 1930s, particularly in films such as 19261928 and 1932and had a major influence on American horror films of the 1930s, some of which featured an antagonist using Caligari-like supernatural abilities to control others, such as 19311931 and 1931. Kaes said both Caligari's stylistic elements, and the Cesare damenbesuch in particular, influenced the horror films of the 1930s, which often prominently featured some sort of monster, such as 193119321934and 1935. The Expressionism of Caligari also influenced Americanparticularly those that used fantastic settings to illustrate an inhuman environment overpowering an individual. Early examples include 19281928 and 1928. Caligari and German Expressionism heavily influenced the American period of the 1940s and 50s, both in visual style and narrative tone. Noir films tended to portray everyone, even the innocent, as the object of suspicion, a common thread in Caligari. The genre also employs several Expressionistic elements in its dark and shadowy visual style, stylized and abstract photography, and distorted and expressive make-up and acting. Caligari also influenced films produced in thesuch as 1924and. Bergman himself, however, has downplayed the influence of German Expressionism on his work. Caligari has also affected stage theatre. Siegfried Kracauer wrote that the film's use of the iris-in has been mimicked in theatrical productions, with lighting used to single out a lone actor. Caligari continues to be one of the most discussed and debated films from the Weimar Republic. Two major books have played a large part in shaping the perception of the film and its effect on cinema as a whole: Siegfried Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler 1947 and Lotte Eisner's The Haunted Screen 1974. From Caligari to Hitler based its claims about the film damenbesuch on an unpublished typescript by Hans Janowitz called Caligari: The Story of a Famous Story, damenbesuch gave Janowitz and Carl Mayer principal credit for the making of Caligari. Many of his interpretations of the film are still embraced, even by those who have strongly disagreed with his general premise, and even as certain claims Kracauer made have been disproven, such as his statement that the original script included no frame story. Eisner's book placed Caligari into historical context by identifying how it influenced Expressionist features in other films of the 1920s. Film historian David Robinson claimed Wiene, despite being the director of Caligari, is often given the least amount of credit for its damenbesuch. He believes this is in part because Wiene died in 1938, closer to the release of the film than any other major collaborators, and was therefore unable to defend his involvement in the work while others took credit. Janowitz has claimed Cesare represents the common citizen who is conditioned to kill or be killed, just as soldiers are trained during their military service, and that Dr. Caligari is symbolic of damenbesuch German government sending those soldiers off to die in the war. Caligari yields over the minds and actions of others results in chaos and both moral and social perversion. In his influential book From Caligari to Hitler, Kracauer argues the Dr. Caligari and Cesare are premonitions of and his rule over Germany, and that his control over the weak-willed, puppet-like somnambulist prefigures aspects of the mentality that allowed the to rise. Caligari damenbesuch Hitler lies in the mood the film conveys, not an endorsement of such tyrant on the film's part. Everyday reality in Caligari is dominated by tyrannical aspects. damenbesuch Authorities sit atop high perches above the people they deal with and hold offices out of sight at the end of long, forbidding stairways. Kracauer wrote the film demonstrates a contrast between the rigid control, represented by such characters as Dr. Caligari and the town clerk, and chaos, represented by the crowds of people at the fair and the seemingly never-ending spinning of the merry-go-rounds. He said the film leaves no room for middle ground between these two extremes, and that viewers are forced to embrace either insanity or authoritarian rigidity, leaving little space for human freedom. Caligari is not the only symbol of arrogant authority in the film. In fact, he is a victim of harsh authority himself during the scene with the dismissive town clerk, who brushes him off and ignores him to focus on his paperwork. damenbesuch Film historian argues that Dr. Caligari's murderous rampage through Cesare can be seen as a rebellious, anti-authoritarian streak in response to such experiences as these, even in spite of his own authoritarianism. The Expressionistic set design in this scene further amplifies the power of the official and the weakness of his supplicant; the clerk towers in an excessively high chair over the small and humiliated Dr. The scene represents class and status differences, and conveys the psychological experience of being simultaneously outraged and powerless in the face of a petty bureaucracy. Another common visual motif is the use of stairways to illustrate the hierarchy of authority figures, such as the multiple stairs leading up to police headquarters, and three staircases ascending to Dr. Francis expresses a resentment of all damenbesuch of authority, particularly during the end of the frame story, when he feels he has been institutionalized because of the madness of the authorities, not because there is anything wrong with him. Francis can be seen, at least within the main narrative, as a symbol of reason and enlightenment triumphing over the irrational tyrant and unmasking the absurdity of social authority. But Kracauer contended the frame story undermines that premise. He argues if not for the frame story, the tale of Francis's efforts against Dr. Caligari would have been a praiseworthy example of independence and rebellion against authority. Fritz Lang disagreed with Kracaucer's argument, and instead believes the frame story makes the film's revolutionary inclinations more convincing, not less. David Robinson said, as time passed, filmgoers have been less inclined to interpret the film as a vindication of authority because modern audiences have grown more skeptical of authority in general, and are more inclined to believe Francis's story and interpret the asylum director as wrongly committing Francis to silence him. By the end of the film, viewers realize the story they have been damenbesuch has been told from the perspective of an insane narrator, and therefore they cannot accept anything they have seen as reliable truth. The film's unusual visual abstractions and other stylized elements serve to show the world as one experienced by a madman. Similarly, the film has been described as portraying the story as a nightmare and the frame story as the real world. The film serves damenbesuch a reminder that any story told through a flashback subjectivizes the story from the perspective of the narrator. At the end of the film, the asylum director gives no indication that he means Francis ill will, and in fact he seems to truly care for his patients. But Francis nevertheless believes he is being persecuted, so in the story as told from his perspective, Dr. Caligari takes on the damenbesuch of persecutor. However, the Damenbesuch visual elements of the film damenbesuch present not only in the main narrative, but also in the epilogue and prologue scenes of the frame story, which are supposed to be an objective account of reality. For example, the frame story scenes still have trees with tentacle-like branches and a high, foreboding wall in the background. Strange leaf and line patterns are seen on the bench Francis sits upon, flame-like geometric designs can be seen on the walls, and his asylum cell has the same distorted shape as in the main narrative. If the primary story were strictly the delusions of a madman, the frame story would be completely devoid of those elements, but the fact they are present makes it unclear whether that perspective can be taken as reliable either. Instead, the film offers no true normal world to oppose to that of the twisted and nightmarish world as described by Francis. As a result, after the film's closing scene, it can be seen as ambiguous whether Francis or the asylum director is truly the insane one, or whether both are insane. Likewise, the final shot of the film, with an iris that fades to a close-up on the asylum director's face, further creates doubt over whether the character is actually sane and trustworthy. Mike Budd notes that, during the scene in which asylum doctors restrain Francis, his movements closely mimic those of Dr. Caligari from a similar scene during the main story. Caligari is portrayed in the main narrative as an insane tyrant, and in the frame story as a respected authority and director of a mental institution. As a result of this duality, the viewer cannot help but suspect a malevolent aspect of him at the conclusion of the film, even despite all evidence indicating he is a kind and caring man. Even within the main narrative alone, Dr. Caligari lives a double life: holding a respectable position as the asylum director, but becoming a hypnotist and murderer at night. Francis also takes on a double life of sorts, serving as the heroic protagonist in the main narrative and a patient in a mental institution in the frame story. Anton Kaes described the story Francis tells as an act of transference with his psychiatrist, as well as a projection of his feelings that he is a victim under the spell of the all-powerful asylum director, just as Cesare is the hypnotized victim of Dr. The Cesare character serves as both a persecutor and a victim, as he is both a murderer and the unwilling slave of an oppressive master. Siegfried Kracauer said by coupling a fantasy in which Francis overthrows a tyrannical authority, with a reality in which authority triumphs over Francis, Caligari reflects a double aspect of German life, suggesting they reconsider their traditional belief in authority even as they embrace it. A contrast between levels of reality exists not only in the characterizations, but in the presentation of some of the scenes as well. For example, flashback scenes when Francis reads Dr. Caligari's diary, in which the doctor is shown growing obsessed with learning hypnotic powers, take place as Dr. Caligari is sleeping peacefully in the present. Another example is the fair, which on the surface appears to represent fun and escapism, but reveals a lurking sense of chaos and disaster in the form of Dr. The visual elements of the film also convey a sense of duality, particularly in the contrasts between black and white. This is particularly prevalent in the sets, where black shadows are set against white walls, but also in other elements like the costumes and make-up. Caligari wears mostly black, but white streaks are present in his hair and on his gloves. Cesare's face is a ghostly white, but the darks of his eyes are heavily outlined in black. Likewise, Jane's white face contrasts with her deep, dark eyes. Francis's despair after Alan's murder can likewise be compared to that of the many soldiers who survived the war but damenbesuch their friends die on the battlefield. Kaes damenbesuch other parallels between the film and war experiences, noting that Cesare attacked Alan at damenbesuch, a common time for attacks during the war. Robert Wiene bought the rights to Caligari from in 1934 with the intention of filming a sound remake, which never materialized before Wiene's death in 1938. He intended to cast as Cesare, and a script, believed to be written by Wiene, damenbesuch the Expressionist style would have been replaced with a French style. In 1944, Erich Pommer and Hans Janowitz each separately attempted to obtain the legal rights to the film, with hopes of a Hollywood remake. However, damenbesuch Janowitz and Pommer ran into complications related to the invalidity of Nazi law in the United States, and uncertainty over the legal rights of sound and silent films. Around 1947, Hollywood agent and German filmmaker Ernst Matray also planned a Caligari sequel; Matray and his wife wrote a screenplay called The Return of Caligari. That script would have reimagined Dr. Caligari as a former Nazi officer and war criminal, but the film was never produced. Screenwriter did not intend to write a Caligari remake, and in fact the title was forced upon his untitled screenplay by director. The film had few similarities to the original Caligari except for damenbesuch title and a plot twist at the end, in which it is revealed the story was simply the delusion of the protagonist, who believed she was being held captive by a character named Caligari. Instead, he was her psychiatrist, and he cures her at the end of the film. A quasi-sequel, calledwas released in 1989, directed by and starring as the granddaughter of the original Dr. Caligari, now running an asylum and performing bizarre hormonal experiments on its patients. The sex-driven story ultimately had little in common with the original film. In 1992, theatre director released his only feature film,an experimental film loosely based on Caligari. However, the storyline was created as the film was being made, so it has few similarities with the original film. The film was screened damenbesuch at the 1992 and never theatrically released. An of Caligari edited, written and directed by David Lee Fisher was released in 2005, in which new actors were placed in front of the actual backdrops from the original film. The actors performed in front of athen their performances damenbesuch superimposed in front of shots based on the original sets. In 2014 the movie was released in a restoration. That music was later recorded for his 1982 album Das Kabinet The Cabinet Of Doctor Caligari. Caligari was adapted into an opera in 1997 by composer. It premiered at the inin a production by Robert McGrath. Numerous musicians have composed new scores to accompany the film. The premiered a damenbesuch penned by ensemble founder and artistic director in 1987. In 2000, the Israeli Electronica group TaaPet made several live performances of their soundtrack for the film around Israel. In 2009-2010 Australian electronic artists Supermarket performed live electronic rescores of the film in Adelaide and Perth. In 2012, the Chatterbox Audio Theatre recorded a live soundtrack, including dialogue, sound effects and music for Caligari, which was released on YouTube on 30 October 2013. The show premiered in February 2015 in Delhi. Caligari composed by Karen MacIver for 's Connect Company with a libretto provided by Allan Dunn. This opera damenbesuch the action set in 1898. The first performances under the direction of Julie Brown took place on the 9th and 10 April 2016 in Damenbesuch Woodside Halls featured the Scottish Opera Connect Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Chris Gray. Alumni from Scottish Opera's Emerging Artists Programme - Andrew McTaggart Baritone and Sarah Power Soprano - were cast as Dr. Gallacher and Jane respectively alongside Daniel Keating Roberts Counter-tenor as Cesare and Glen Cunningham Tenor as Francis with members of the Chorus providing additional roles. The first live performance of the soundtrack damenbesuch had taken place at the 2003Singapore on 2 October 2003. This mini-series was later released complete in graphic-novel format as Caligari 2050: Another Sleepless Night. In 1998, an audio adaptation of the film written and directed by was released by Dove Audio on audio cassette. In 2015 Delhi-based theatre director and scenographer directed a play inspired by the film by the same name. The play has been performed by Performance Studies Collective group from Delhi and is a contemporary take on the 1920 film, emerging out of spatial experimentation with a focus on objects, some found and others made. South Indian premiere was in 2017 at the. It is a multimedia performance in which the scenography and dramaturgy emerge together in an attempt to navigate through the run-down warehouse space where the production has been staged. She was actually alive during the entire production. Torn between Mayer and Janowitz, Gilda Langer took the chance to trade up from a pair of starving writers in favor of an up-and-coming director and producer named Paul Czinner. By marrying Czinner, Gilda damenbesuch left their orbit. CineGraph - Lexikon zum deutschsprachigen Film in German. Archived damenbesuch on 10 March 2015. Archived from on 10 March 2015. Archived from on 19 February 2015. Archived from on 19 February 2015. Archived from on 10 March 2015. Archived from on 10 March 2015. Archived from on 10 March 2015. The band Monomyth from The Hague composed a new score especially for Imagine, which they will perform live. Archived from on 10 March 2015. Archived from on 10 March 2015. 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The film had few similarities to the original Caligari except for its title and a plot twist at the end, in which it is revealed the story was simply the delusion of the protagonist, who believed she was being held captive by a character named Caligari. Strange leaf and line patterns are seen on the bench Francis sits upon, flame-like geometric designs can be seen on the walls, and his asylum cell has the same distorted shape as in the main narrative. Caligari and observes what appears to be Cesare sleeping in his box. According to Janowitz, he observed a woman disappear into some bushes, from which a respectable-looking man emerged a few moments later, and the next day Janowitz learned the girl was murdered. Film historians Kristin Thompson and David B. With help from the asylum staff, Francis studies the director's records and diary while the director is sleeping.
