Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 77 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
- In German — subtitles on.
The story
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
- insane asylum
- black and white
- silent film
- unreliable narrator
- expressionism
- somnambulist
- megalomania
- madman
- somnambulism
- german expressionism
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Hans Heinrich von Twardowski — Alan
- Rudolf Lettinger — Dr. Olsen
- Henri Peters-Arnolds — Young Doctor (uncredited)
- Rudolf Klein-Rogge — Criminal (uncredited)
- Hans Lanser-Rudolf — Old Man (uncredited)
- Ludwig Rex — Murderer (uncredited)
- Elsa Wagner — Landlady (uncredited)
- Directed
- Robert Wiene
- Written
- Carl Mayer, Hans Janowitz
Production
- Studio
- Decla Film Gesellschaft Holz & Co.
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
