British distributors Eureka Entertainment have officially announced that they will release on Blu-ray Robert Wiene's masterpiece
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), starring Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, and Friedrich Feher. The release will be available for purchase on September 29th.
The recently restored
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari will also be released theatrically on August 29 and will open at the BFI Southbank and other selected cinemas nationwide, and will feature as part of Scalarama's core programme throughout September http://scalarama.com/.
One of the most iconic masterpieces in cinema history, Robert Wiene's Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari shook filmgoers worldwide and changed the direction of the art form. Now presented in a definitive restoration, the film's chilling, radically expressionist vision is set to grip viewers again.
At a local carnival in a small German town, hypnotist Dr. Caligari presents the somnambulist Cesare, who can purportedly predict the future of curious fairgoers. But at night, the doctor wakes Cesare from his sleep to enact his evil bidding…
Incalculably influential, the film's nightmarishly jagged sets, sinister atmospheric and psychological emphasis left an immediate impact in its wake (horror, film noir, and gothic cinema would all be shaped directly by it). But this diabolical tale nevertheless stands alone - now more mesmerizing than.