Wiene directed the actors—especially Werner Krauss, as Caligari, and Conrad Veidt, as Cesare—to pitch their performances in a distorted ... A Psychological History of the German Film, that The Cabinet ...

Hans Walter Conrad Veidt (22 January 1893 – 3 April 1943) was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as Different from the Others (1919), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920 ...

Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat whom mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous ...