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    Film Review Das Cabinet Des DR Caligari

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    Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari (1920) tells the story of Dr Caligari and his somnambulist Cesare who commit murders at a fair in the town of Holstenwall. Throughout the film, the protagonist Francis believes Cesare is killing under Dr Caligari's control. However, it is ultimately revealed that Francis is a patient in an asylum and the entire story is his delusion, with the asylum director as Dr Caligari. The film was influenced by Germany's depression after World War 1 and reflects themes of distrust, loss of control, and the impact of war on society. It helped establish the "mad scientist" trope and influenced many later films through its dark

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    Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari (1920) tells the story of Dr Caligari and his somnambulist Cesare who commit murders at a fair in the town of Holstenwall. Throughout the film, the protagonist Francis believes Cesare is killing under Dr Caligari's control. However, it is ultimately revealed that Francis is a patient in an asylum and the entire story is his delusion, with the asylum director as Dr Caligari. The film was influenced by Germany's depression after World War 1 and reflects themes of distrust, loss of control, and the impact of war on society. It helped establish the "mad scientist" trope and influenced many later films through its dark

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    Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari (1920) tells the story of Dr Caligari and his somnambulist Cesare who commit murders at a fair in the town of Holstenwall. Throughout the film, the protagonist Francis believes Cesare is killing under Dr Caligari's control. However, it is ultimately revealed that Francis is a patient in an asylum and the entire story is his delusion, with the asylum director as Dr Caligari. The film was influenced by Germany's depression after World War 1 and reflects themes of distrust, loss of control, and the impact of war on society. It helped establish the "mad scientist" trope and influenced many later films through its dark

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    Film review

    Das cabinet des Dr Caligari

    Fig 1 The cabinet of Dr Caligari poster


    Robert Weine’s Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari (1920), is based in the
    town of Holstenwall which has a fair in town. One of the fair’s show
    is Dr Caligari and his somnambulist. It is shown that Dr Caligari is the
    only one that can wake up and control cesare.

    With the fair in town strange murders started to occur in the town,
    those who were murdered had seen or interacted with Cesare which
    led to the assumption of him being the culprit until many plot twists
    show that it couldn’t possibly be cesare. Until we’re shown that it is
    the Doctor controlling him.

    The film is seen through Francis who is the protagonist in the film
    who tells us the story of the strange happenings during the fair.
    Throughout the film we are led to believe that Cesare is the killer and
    Dr Caligari is controlling him. There are many twists such as when we
    find out that there is a dummy of Cesare to keep suspicion off of him
    when he is out at night. Then at the end of the film it turns out that
    Francis was a patient in an asylum and the whole story is a delusion,
    he believes that the director of the hospital is Dr Caligari and that
    he’s controlling Cesare.

    Fig2 inside the asylum at the end


    At the time of the film being made Germany was going through a
    great depression due to ww1. Many people found themselves
    wanting to escape from reality and the US started the boom of
    German entertainment. The influence of the war is very strong
    throughout the film through the Mise En scene, themes, setting and
    narrative of the film. There is an underlying theme of a feeling of
    dread which is representative of the Weimar republic. Such as the
    police turning on the hero, the feeling of not knowing who to trust
    and how Caligari went from having power, being stripped of it, then
    given it back at the end of the film. “while Germans were surely
    anxious of the inevitability of authority, the film expertly
    encapsulates these fears, the horrific content of the films story
    represents a country in the midst of turmoil as its most basic level.”

    Throughout the film we’re shown the impact of the war, which is the
    biggest influence for the writing and settings of the film. It is clear
    from the film that war is fresh in the memory of the creators; in fact,
    Hans’s Janowitz and Carl Maya fought in the war. The feeling of fear
    and apprehension is made clear due to the changing and conflicting
    story, especially in the scene with Cesare kidnapping Jane, the use of
    sharp patterns in her room provokes the feeling of terror and dread.

    Fig3 cesare kidnapping Jane


    The film has a big impact on pop culture such as influencing styles of
    films and creating the mad scientist trope. A big director who has
    been hugely influenced by the film is Tim Burton, who uses the dark
    gothic horror theme in his sets, script and tone. Such films by Burton
    that show this influence is the Nightmare Before Christmas, a book
    that a production designer admitted that “some of the designs are
    reminiscent of the old German expressionist film the Cabinet of Dr
    Caligari and Nosferatu which have a strong, graphic two-dimensional
    look within a three-dimensional environment.” (Smith and Matthews
    2002)

    Bibliography
    https://www.intjournal.com/0813/the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari/

    Mehruss Jon Ahi and Armen Karaoghlanian (2013)

    https://www.scribd.com/embeds/389060507/content#from_embed

    impacted of ww1 presentation (2018)

    https://www.scribd.com/document/389061527/Caligari-Pop-
    Culture#from_embed – pop culture presentation(2018)

    https://the-artifice.com/the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari-dark-relationship-
    with-postwar-germany/

    Kevin kryah(2015)
    images

    https://rosimanopolis.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/el-gabinete-del-
    dr-caligari/ -fig 1 (1920)
    https://www.eastman.org/event/film-screenings/cabinet-dr-caligari-
    0 - fig2 (2018)

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/05/cabinet-of-dr-
    caligari-dvd-review-classic-french -fig3 (2014)

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