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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The poster that taught the movies to lean.
What
The lithographed poster for Robert Wiene’s Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari — the film that invented cinematic Expressionism, its painted world of leaning walls carried straight onto the sheet.
Why
Caligari made the screen a place where sets could be mad. Its posters are among the first to treat film advertising as avant-garde art rather than announcement.
Notice
Nothing stands upright. The lettering tilts with the architecture; the whole image seems to have been drawn during an earthquake and framed anyway.
“You must become Caligari.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 11x17" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920), dir. Robert Wiene
- Country / studio
- Germany · Decla-Bioscop
- Designer
- Erich Ludwig Stahl & Otto Arpke
- Printer / stone
- lithograph, Decla
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- German theatrical poster, 1920
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-16.
The same film, another screen
From The Haunted Screen
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