<P> The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( German : Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari ) is a 1920 German silent horror film , directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer . Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema , it tells the story of an insane hypnotist ( Werner Krauss ) who uses a somnambulist ( Conrad Veidt ) to commit murders . The film features a dark and twisted visual style , with sharp - pointed forms , oblique and curving lines , structures and landscapes that lean and twist in unusual angles , and shadows and streaks of light painted directly onto the sets . </P>
<P> The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( German : Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari ) is a 1920 German silent horror film , directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer . Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema , it tells the story of an insane hypnotist ( Werner Krauss ) who uses a somnambulist ( Conrad Veidt ) to commit murders . The film features a dark and twisted visual style , with sharp - pointed forms , oblique and curving lines , structures and landscapes that lean and twist in unusual angles , and shadows and streaks of light painted directly onto the sets . </P>
who commits the murders in the cabinet of dr. caligari
who commits the murders in the cabinet of dr. caligari
an insane hypnotist ( Werner Krauss ) who uses a somnambulist ( Conrad Veidt ) to commit murders
an insane hypnotist ( Werner Krauss ) who uses a somnambulist ( Conrad Veidt ) to commit murders