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Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene

Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene

Hardcover

Film StudiesFilmmaking

ISBN10: 1571811567
ISBN13: 9781571811561
Publisher: Berghahn Books Inc
Published: May 1 1999
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

While the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari became an international film classic, its director, Robert Wiene, was disparaged and even forgotten. Wiene's oeuvre, however, exhibits a surprising versatility and quality, featuring Raskolnikov, an expressionist adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel, INRI, a monumental Bible epic, Orlac's Hands, a psychological thriller, and Der Rosenkavalier, an ambitious opera film. His last film, Ultimatum(1938), is a vehement warning of approaching war, which remains relevant today. With painstaking research of the major European film archives, the author's detailed portrait reveals a career far more differentiated than hitherto acknowledged. Caligar/i - though rated the second most important film in German film history in a recent critic's and scholar's poll - was a landmark rather than a culmination in a career that successfully oscillated between artistic and commercial interests.

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