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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

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Franzis tells the central story in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Its expressionist sets make inner feelings visible through a distorted world of painted shadows and sharp angles.

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言語
Silent; German intertitles
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: Momo peers around sharp paper architecture beside a glowing carnival cabinet.

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Who is telling Caligari’s story?

Franzis
The young man whose account we follow.
Caligari
The fairground showman, played by Werner Krauss.
Cesare
Caligari’s somnambulist: a person who walks in their sleep, played by Conrad Veidt.

Why do the streets look wrong?

The exaggerated sets were designed by Walter Reimann, Hermann Warm and Walter Röhrig, as the Murnau Foundation records.

Expressionism shapes the visible world through inner feeling. BFI critic Alex Barrett describes the performers’ movements and sets combining into geometric patterns.

What does the ending reveal? Ending spoilers

Franzis is revealed as a patient in an asylum, with Caligari as its head doctor. Barrett’s account describes the reversal of the storyteller’s position.

Barrett argues that the asylum’s expressionist appearance keeps reality and delusion from separating cleanly. His reading leaves the doctor’s authority open to question.

On a second viewing, compare the opening bench with the final asylum. The ending changes whose account we are asked to trust.

For a first watch, look for the Murnau Foundation’s 2014 restoration. Its documented DCP runs 77 minutes; the separate 55-minute catalogue record describes another presentation. The Foundation restored the film in 4K from 2012 to 2014. Afterwards, try Nosferatu and compare how its rooms prepare an entrance, using our restoration and score guide to choose a copy.

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari makes anxiety part of the scenery. Crooked streets, painted shadows, sharp angles, and theatrical gestures create a world where nothing appears stable or trustworthy. Rather than hiding its artificial sets, the film uses them to place us inside a disturbed state of mind. Its influence is easy to feel whenever horror lets design and atmosphere bend reality.

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Meet the exaggerated acting and painted sets on their own terms; the film is closer to a nightmare staged in a small theatre than to naturalistic horror. The framing story can feel distant at first, but the central figures soon become clear. Watch doors, windows, and paths: the design keeps telling you that this world offers no straight route to safety.

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簡単な補足（網羅的ではありません） Includes murder, abduction, mind control, institutional confinement, and dated depictions of mental illness.
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A prophecy is more troubling when someone can arrange the outcome.

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Cesare’s prophecy is a nasty little sales demonstration. He predicts a man’s death; in Franzis’s story, the same sleepwalker commits murders under Caligari’s control. A fortune-telling business with its own fulfilment department. I like the way this turns a question about the future into a question about who can arrange it. The framing story later challenges Franzis’s account, so I would not cash that prophecy as proof of supernatural powers. Its useful terror lies between knowing what will happen and making it happen.

— Momo

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出演
Werner Krauss · Conrad Veidt · Friedrich Feher · Lil Dagover
脚本
Carl Mayer · Hans Janowitz
製作
Decla-Film-Ges. Holz & Co.
撮影
Willy Hameister

版の見取り図

Murnau Foundation 4K restoration DCP screening 77 min · restoration · Germany The Murnau Foundation's current DCP distribution record lists its tinted 2014 restoration at 77:09, with German intertitles and English, French, and Portuguese subtitles. The Foundation's July 2024 programme rounds the same restored DCP to 77 minutes. 出典：Murnau Foundation project — Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari出典：Murnau Foundation program July 2024出典：Murnau Foundation — Film distribution DCP 01/2026 上映時間の参考資料 · 確認日：2026-09-23

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