 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920  N/R, 52 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Robert Wiene
Cast: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Lil Dagover, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Rudolf Lettinger, Hans Lanser-Rudolf, Ludwig Rex, Elsa Wagner, Henri Peters-Arnolds
This German Expressionist film tells the gruesome story of murder and terror set among black shadows painted across geometrically irregular streets and rooftops running zigzag among leaning chimneys. Dr. Caligari (Werner Krauss) is a hypnotist who travels with a carnival and displays a sleepwalker named Cesare (Conrad Veidt) as his attraction. While performing in a small, German town, murders take place, and when Francis' (Friedrich Feher) best friend Alan (Hans Heinrich von Twardowski) is killed, Francis connects the murder to Caligari. He accuses Caligari of committing the murders, but the police ignore him. When Francis performs his own investigation, he finds clues indicating that Caligari has ordered Cesare to commit the murders, and after a brutal confrontation with Caligari, Francis ensures that Caligari will be locked away in an asylum.
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End of the Game 1976  PG, 106 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Getting Away with Murder
Director: Maximilian Schell
Cast: Jon Voight, Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Ritt, Robert Shaw, Helmut Qualtinger, Gabriele Ferzetti, Norbert Schiller, Lil Dagover, Donald Sutherland
Swiss detective Hans Baerlach (Martin Ritt) has been on the trail of Richard Gastmann (Robert Shaw). Now, as he closes in, the waters become murky, and things are not always as clear as they seem.
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Tartuffe 1925 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: F.W. Murnau
Cast: Emil Jannings, Lil Dagover, Werner Krauss, Rosa Valetti, Hermann Picha, Andre Mattoni, Lucie Hoflich, Camilla Horn
Based on Moliere's satirical play, this is the tale of Tartuffe (Emil Jannings), a religious hypocrite who uses his skills to rip off believers. He is now on the verge of talking wealthy Orgon (Werner Krauss) into handing over Orgon's daughter, whom Tartuffe loves, AND Orgon's land and money in exchange for divine absolution. But he doesn't quite get away with it.
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| 1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
2. End of the Game (1976)
aka: Getting Away with Murder
3. Tartuffe (1925)
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