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Director: G.W. Pabst, Robert Wiene, Arthur Robison

Cast: Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss

(1920) Rated: Unrated

US DVD release date: 19 February 2008 (Kino)

[7 March 2008]

by Michael Barrett

We think of Expressionism, as practiced in the theatre and film of Germany and other European countries during the early 1900s, as a way of distorting the plastic elements -- Culture's extension of Nature's pathetic fallacy, where instead of trees and clouds reflecting our moods, it's the furniture and stairways.

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