The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
Directed by Robert Wiene
Cesare (Conrad Veidt)is fed by Dr. Caligari (Werner Krauss)
A young man named Francis recounts a fantastic story taking place in a North German town. A number of brutal murders occur there. Francis and his friend, Alan, visit a traveling fair, where one of the acts is Dr. Caligari's presentation of a hypnotized sleepwalker named Cesare, who predicts the future. Cesare predicts Alan will be dead by morning, and he is in fact murdered that night. Francis becomes suspicious of Caligari and Cesare, but another man is incorrectly charged with the crimes. However, Cesare later abducts Francis's fiancee Jane, and it becomes evident that Caligari was commanding the sleepwalker to carry out the murders. Francis chases Caligari into an insane asylum where it turns out Caligari is the director, he himself gone mad. Dr. Caligari is captured and incarcerated in his own institution. The flashback ends, and it turns out Francis is actually a patient in the asylum, as are Jane and Cesare. The benevolent Dr. Caligari is the director, and he states that Francis suffers from peculiar delusions.
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