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The cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Author: Robert WieneErich PommerMike BuddWerner KraussConrad VeidtAll authors
Publisher: [Chatsworth, CA] : Image Entertainment, [1996]
Series: Blackhawk Films collection.
Edition/Format:   DVD video : English : Special collector's edView all editions and formats
Summary:
A somnambulist commits murders at a hypnotist's bidding in this German expressionist horror classic. Also featured on this videodisc is an excerpt of "Genuine: a tale of a vampire", a 1920 release which reunited "Caligari's" creative team.
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Genre/Form: Silent films
Feature films
Expressionist films
Horror films
Vampire films
Fiction films
Film excerpts
Drama
Material Type: Videorecording
Document Type: Visual material
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Wiene; Erich Pommer; Mike Budd; Werner Krauss; Conrad Veidt; Friedrich Feher; Lil Dagover; Carl Mayer; Hans Janowitz; Timothy Brock; Film Preservation Associates.; Decla Film-Gesellschaft.; Blackhawk Films.; Image Entertainment (Firm)
OCLC Number: 39035630
Language Note: Silent with musical accompaniment and English intertitles.
Notes: Title from disc label.
Videodisc release of the 1919 motion picture.
Includes "accurate new English translation titles ... a new musical score composed and conducted by Timothy Brock [which] was inspired by German avant-garde music from the early 20th century ... contains an exclusive audio essay by scholar Mike Budd and a selection of original graphic materials, accessed via the on screen menu."--Container.
Credits: Story and screenplay, Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz ; design, Hermann Warm, Walter Reimann, Walter Rohrig ; photography, Willy Hameister.
Cast: Werner Kraus, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover, Hans Feher, Hans von Twardowski.
Description: 1 videodisc (77 min.) : sd., col. tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
Details: DVD; stereo.
Contents: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (72 min.) --
Genuine: a tale of a vampire (ca. 3 min.).
Series Title: Blackhawk Films collection.
Other Titles: Genuine: a tale of a vampire.
Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (Motion picture).
Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Responsibility: Film Preservation Associates ; production company, Decla Film Gesellschaft, Berlin ; director, Robert Wiene.
Local System Bib Number:
133757

Abstract:

A somnambulist commits murders at a hypnotist's bidding in this German expressionist horror classic. Also featured on this videodisc is an excerpt of "Genuine: a tale of a vampire", a 1920 release which reunited "Caligari's" creative team.
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