- Robert Wiene
Robert Wiene (
April 27 ,1873 ,Breslau –June 16 ,1938 ,Paris ) was an importantfilm director of the German silent cinema.Robert Wiene was born in
Breslau , (then in GermanSilesia , today:Wroclaw ,Poland ) as a son of a successfultheatre actor Carl Wiene. His younger brother Conrad became also an actor, but Robert Wiene at first studied law at the University of Berlin. Since 1908 Robert Wiene also started to act, at first in small parts on stage. His first foray into film was in 1912 with his screenplay forDie Waffen der Jugend .His most memorable feature films are the 1920
horror film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" - "Raskolnikow" (1923), both movies had a deep influence on the German cinema of that time.After
Hitler took power in Germany, Robert Wiene left Berlin, first for Budapest where he directed "One Night in Venice" (1934), later London, and finally to Paris where tried to produce together withJean Cocteau , a sound remake of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari".Fact|date=August 2008Wiene died in Paris ten days before the end of production of a spy film, Ultimatum, after having suffered from
cancer . The film was finished by Wiene's friendRobert Siodmak .Films
a selection:
* 1919 (released in 1920) "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"
* 1920 "Genuine"
* 1923 "Raskolnikow"
* 1923 "I.N.R.I."
* 1924 "Orlacs Hände"
* 1926 "Der Rosenkavalier"
* 1930 "Der Andere "
* 1931 "Der Liebesexpress"
* 1934 "One Night in Venice"
* 1938 "Ultimatum"External links
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