The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920) — The Way to The Insane Asylum

Movie: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (German: Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari) Scene: Dr Caligari is pursued through the streets to the insane asylum The Cabinet of Dr Caligari is a 1920 German silent horror film, directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. The film's design was handled by Hermann Warm, Walter Reimann and Walter Röhrig, who recommended a fantastic, graphic style over a naturalistic one.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.