

Robert Wiene, the man who tilted the sets of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari until reality slid off the screen, returns in Monika Vogelsang with a quieter but no less venomous scalpel: this time he dissects not the mind of a madman but the parchment soul of a respectable woman. The film, believed lost for decades until a ...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Rudolf Biebrach

Rudolf Biebrach
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" Robert Wiene, the man who tilted the sets of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari until reality slid off the screen, returns in Monika Vogelsang with a quieter but no less venomous scalpel: this time he dissects not the mind of a madman but the parchment soul of a respectable woman. The film, believed lost for decades until a nitrate bouquet surfaced in a Slovenian monastery trunk, is a cold hand on the nape of the Weimar Republic—an era that thought itself modern yet still let a clerical error erase a ..."
Hanns Kräly, Robert Wiene, Felix Philippi
Germany

