Robert Wiene

Robert Wiene

Robert Wiene (27 April 1873–16 June 1938) was an important film director of the German silent cinema.

Robert Wiene was born in Breslau,^[1] as the elder son of the successful theatre actor Carl Wiene. His younger brother Conrad also became an actor, but Robert Wiene at first studied law at the University of Berlin. In 1908 he also started to act, at first in small parts on stage. His first involvement with film was in 1912 with his screenplay for Die Waffen der Jugend.

His most memorable feature films are the 1920 horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Raskolnikow (1923), an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, both of which had a deep influence on the German cinema of that time.

After Hitler took power in Germany, Wiene left Berlin, and went first to Budapest, where he directed One Night in Venice (1934), later to London, and finally to Paris where together with Jean Cocteau he tried to produce a sound remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.^{[citation needed]}

Wiene 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 friend Robert Siodmak.

Filmography

Selected:

• 1919 (released in 1920) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• 1920 Genuine
• 1921 Die Rache einer Frau
• 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

Notes

External links

• Robert Wiene at the Internet Movie Database

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