New York State Writers Institute - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Classic Film Series, Fall 1996

THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
November 1, 1996 (Friday), 7:00 p.m., Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue

German, 1919, 90 minutes, black-and-white, 16 mm
Directed by Robert Wiene
Starring Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher

Magician (or madman) Dr. Caligari exhibits his hyponotic subject as part of a traveling fair that has stopped in a small German town. One of the landmark films of this century, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI introduced many of the standard horror conventions used in film.