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Title Director Cast Genre Notes 1920: Abend - Nacht - Morgen (Evening - Night - Morning): Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: Conrad Veidt, Gertrude Welcker: Presumed lost film IMDb: Algol (Algol - Tragödie der Macht)
Pages in category "1920s German films" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,098 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a list of the most notable films produced in Germany of the Weimar Republic era from 1919 until 1932, in year order. This period, between the end of World War I and the advent of the Nazi regime, is considered an early renaissance in world cinema, with many influential and important films being made.
But in the late 1920s, sound production and distribution were starting to be adopted by the German film industry and by 1932 Germany had 3,800 cinemas equipped to play sound films. The first filmmakers who experimented with the new technology often shot the film in several versions, using several soundtracks in different languages.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (German: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is a 1920 German silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer.The quintessential work of early German Expressionist cinema, [3] it tells the story of an insane hypnotist (Werner Krauss) who uses a brainwashed somnambulist (Conrad Veidt) to commit murders.
Pages in category "1920s German-language films" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 640 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In Germany, the film received a stellar reception. According to Spiro, the film "sold out the Berlin Premiere at Ufa-Palast am Zoo on October 29, 1920, and played to full theaters for two months straight." [6] The film first released in the United States to packed houses in New York City in 1921 at the Criterion Theater. [9]
The themes of Expressionism were integrated into later films of the 1920s and 1930s, resulting in an artistic control over the placement of scenery, light, etc., to enhance the mood of a film. This dark, moody school of filmmaking was brought to the United States when the Nazis gained power and many German film makers emigrated to Hollywood ...