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With the arrival of Robert Wiene‘s seminal horror classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari on Blu-ray this week, we’ve teamed with Kino Classics to give away one (1) Blu-ray to our readers. One (1) winner will receive one (1) copy of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari on Blu-ray. See how to enter below and all entries must be received by 11:59 PM EST on Sunday, November 23rd.

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We will select the winners at random and notify via Facebook or Twitter message. One entry per household. No purchase necessary. Winners must live inside the U.S. and shipping to a P.O. box is not permitted.

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In 1920, one brilliant movie jolted the postwar masses and catapulted the movement known as German Expressionism into film history. That movie was The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a plunge into the mind of insanity that severs all ties with the rational world. Director Robert Wiene and a visionary team of designers crafted a nightmare realm in which light, shadow and substance are abstracted, a world in which a demented doctor and a carnival sleepwalker perpetrate a series of ghastly murders in a small community. This authoritative edition of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a 4K restoration scanned from the (mostly) preserved camera negative at the German Federal Film Archive.

Germany / 1920 / 77 minutes / Color Tinted / 1.33:1 /
German intertitles with optional English subtitles

Bonus Features:
Booklet essay by Kristin Thompson
Caligari: How Horror Came to the Cinema (documentary, 52 minutes), a film by Rüdiger Suchsland
Additional Music Score by Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky)
Image Gallery
Restoration Demonstration

CREDITS:
Directed by Robert Wiene
Photographed by Willy Hameister
Written by Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz
Art Direction: Hermann Warm, Walter Reimann and Walter Röhrig
With Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Lil Dagover, Friedrich Fehér
Restoration: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Wiesbaden

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is available on Blu-ray this week.

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