While The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari became an international film
classic, its director, Robert Wiene, was disparaged and even
forgotten. Wiene's oeuvre, however, exhibits a a surprising
versatility and quality, featuring Raskolnikov, an expressionist
adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel, INRI, a monumental Bible epic,
Orlac's Hands, a psychological thriller, and Der Rosenkavalier, an
ambitious opera film. His last film, Ultimatum (1938), is a
vehement warning of the approaching war, which remains relevant
today. With painstaking research of the major European film
archives, the author's detailed portrait reveals a career far more
differentiated than hitherto acknowledged. Caligari though rated
the second most important film in German film history in a recent
critic's and scholar's poll -- was a landmark rather than a
culmination in a career that successfully oscillated between
artistic and commercial interests.
As the field of film studies rediscovers film history and the
value of historical context for the analysis of individual films,
monographs on filmmakers are increasingly valuable to scholars and
students of both film history and cultural studies. Through the
provocative and prolific career of Robert Wiene, a wider, more
dynamic view of fantasy production in the Weimar Republic is
revealed, enabling the reader to better appreciate the complex
shapes of Weimar cinema, its inimitable blend of modernism and mass
culture, of avant-garde enterprise, and generic production.
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