Key facts
- Years active
- late 1910s – early 1930s
- Location
- Germany
- Major figures
- Fritz Lang F. W. Murnau Robert Wiene
- Influences
- WWI 's traumatic aftermath and the slowly dread-inducing Weimar Republic
- Influenced
- Classical Hollywood cinema film noir gangster horror Kammerspiel silent film
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- CABINETOFDRCALIGARI-poster.jpg
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- Commons category
- Expressionist films
- start time
- 1910-00-00
- end time
- 1930-00-00
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German expressionist cinema was a part of several related creative movements in Germany in the early 20th century that reached a peak in Berlin during the 1920s. These developments were part of a larger Expressionist movement in Northwestern European culture in fields such as architecture, dance, painting, sculpture and cinema.
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