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Directed by Robert Wiene
Produced by Rudolf Meinert Erich Pommer Written by Hans
Janowitz Carl Mayer Starring Werner Krauss Conrad Veidt
Friedrich Fehér Lil Dagover Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Music by Giuseppe Becce Cinematography Willy Hameister
Distributed by Goldwyn Distributing Company Release
date(s) February 26, 1920 March 19, 1921 May 14, 1921
Running time 71 min. Language German Budget DEM 20,000
(estimated)
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Caligari in
Popular Culture
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In
Lemony Snicket's
book
The Carnivorous
Carnival the action takes place in the
Caligari Carnival, which features a somewhat
less-than-authentic fortune teller.
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The appearance of the character Edward in
Edward
Scissorhands is based on that of
Cesare.
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A Spanish pop/rock band is called "Gabinete
Caligari", probably after the film
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There is a Japanese visual kei band called
"cali≠gari."
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The 1998 music video for
Rob Zombie
single "Living
Dead Girl" restaged several scenes from
the film, with Zombie in the role of Caligari
beckoning to the fair attendees. In addition to
artificially imitating the poor image quality of
aged film, the video also made use of the
expressionistic sepia, aqua, and violet tinting used
in Caligari. The film also inspired imagery
in the videos for "Otherside"
(1999) by the
Red Hot Chili
Peppers, and "Forsaken"
(2002), from the soundtrack for the motion picture
Queen of the
Damned.
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In
The X-Files,
the character
Jose Chung
who is a novelist, wrote a book called "The
Caligarian Candidate"
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The television program
Mystery Science
Theater 3000 featured
Bride of the
Monster in episode 423. One of the
comments is "The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari?"
referring to the twisted hunted manor
References
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