With the 1920 release of Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, German Expressionist cinema hit its first peak amid a climate of nationwide economic, political, and spiritual despair.
With the 1920 release of Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, German Expressionist cinema hit its first peak amid a climate of nationwide economic, political, and spiritual despair.
emotion-laden style we now call German Expressionist cinema was exemplified by such F.W. Murnau works as “Nosferatu” (1922), an unnerving, haunting twist on Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.” ...
Nosferatu is a curious iteration of Bram Stoker’s legacy. A masterpiece of German expressionist cinema, FW Murnau’s unofficial 1922 adaptation of Dracula – almost destroyed after a lawsuit ...