The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari)

The cabinet of Dr. caligar/

a film in six acts written by Carl Mayer and hans janowitz

decla-film-gesellschaft Berlin

directed by Robert wiene

art direction: Hermann warm Walter reimann, Walter rohrig

cast: Werner krauss Conrad veidt, friedrich fehér

Lil dagover, hans heinz v. Twardowski, Rudolph lettinger

Photographed by Willy hameister

act I

There are spirits... They are all around us...

They have driven me from hearth and home,

from wife and child...

That is my fiancée...

What she and I have lived through is stranger still than what you have lived through...

I will tell you about it.

The little town where I was born...

The annual fair.

Him...

Alan, my friend.

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for the first time entertainments of every variety

Come on, franzis, let's go to the fair!

Don't go inside, the town clerk is in a vile temper today!

Wait!!!

Wait!!!

I wish to apply for a permit to present my spectacle at the fair...

What kind of spectacle...?

A somnambulist.

Step rrrrright up! Presenting here for the first time...

Cesare, the somnambulist!

End of act I

act ii

that night the first in a series of mysterious crimes took place.

Murder! The town clerk has been killed.

Stabbed in the side with a strange pointed instrument...

Step rrrrright in! Presenting here for the first time... cesare the somnambulist!

The miraculous cesare...

Twenty-three years old, he has slept for twenty-three years... continuously...

Day and night...

Right before your eyes cesare will awaken from his death-like trance...

Cesare! Can you hear me? Cesare, I am calling you...

I... Dr. caligari... your master... Awaken for a moment from your dark night...

Ladies and gentlemen!

Cesare the somnambulist will answer all your questions...

Cesare knows every secret...

Cesare knows the past and sees the future...

Don't hold back! Ask away...

How long will I live?

Till the break of dawn...

Murder in holstenwall 1000 marks reward

The way home.

Alan, we both love her...

We'll leave the choice up to her...

But whomever she chooses, we shall remain friends...

Night.

End of act il

act ill

Mr. franzis... Mr. franazis... Mr. Alan is dead... murdered.

The somnambulist's prophecy...?!

I won't rest until I get to the bottom of these dreadful deeds.

I will obtain police authorisation to examine the somnambulist...

Murder... help... murder!

Wake him up!