The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Name: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Genre: Horror
Released: 1920
Duration: 77 min
Cast: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

年份: 1920 (以英语打开)
导演: Robert Wiene (以英语打开)
片长: 77分钟Murnau Foundation 4K restoration DCP screening 版本资料来源 ↓

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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制片国家: Germany (以英语打开)
语言: 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.

如何轻松入门

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.

观影提醒

简要提示，并非详尽清单 Includes murder, abduction, mind control, institutional confinement, and dated depictions of mental illness.

Momo's Note 可能含剧透 Momo是谁？ → (以英语打开)

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

Cesare predicts a death and commits murders under Caligari’s control within the story Franzis tells. Murnau Foundation catalogue — Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari; BFI — Alex Barrett on The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The framing story challenges the status of Franzis’s account. Murnau Foundation catalogue — Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari; BFI — Alex Barrett on The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

演职员与版本

演员: Werner Krauss · Conrad Veidt · Friedrich Feher · Lil Dagover
编剧: Carl Mayer · Hans Janowitz
制片: Decla-Film-Ges. Holz & Co.
摄影: Willy Hameister

版本概览

Murnau Foundation catalogue record 55 min · Germany The Murnau Foundation catalogue records a 1,505-metre element at 55 minutes. This catalogue presentation is retained separately and is not treated as the runtime of the 2014 restoration. 来源：Murnau Foundation catalogue — Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari 核查日期：2026-08-13

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. 来源：Murnau Foundation project — Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari 来源：Murnau Foundation program July 2024 来源：Murnau Foundation — Film distribution DCP 01/2026 片长参考资料 · 核查日期：2026-09-23