Robert Wiene
Film Director • 1913–2016 • 1 work
Robert Wiene was a film director of the German silent cinema. He is particularly known for directing the German silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and a succession of other expressionist films. Wiene also directed a variety of other films of varying styles and genres. Following the Nazi rise to…
- Born
- April 24, 1873 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]
- Died
- July 16, 1938
- Frequent Collaborators
- Willy Hameister
- Known for
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Other (1930), The Hands of Orlac (1924), Crime and Punishment (1923), The Amateur Adventure (1928)