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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Why this pick
Wiene’s landmark expressionist nightmare shares Orlac’s distorted visual world, psychological unease, and sense that identity and reality are becoming dangerously unstable.
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Its shadowy, stylised German Expressionist imagery and tragic created-being premise echo the uncanny bodily dread and fatalism surrounding Orlac.
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Why this pick
A compact silent melodrama of obsessive desire and extreme bodily transformation, played with the same macabre intensity and morally claustrophobic atmosphere as Orlac.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Conrad Veidt
Paul Orlac
Hans Homma
Dr. Serral
Alexandra Sorina
Yvonne Orlac