The Mad Doctor Meets the Somnambulist

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What happens is the first commercially successful art film (tengja hlekkur). The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) was released in January 1920 becoming a German and international sensation. It marked the beginning of a German film revival during the 1920s The German Expressionist Movement in German art strongly influenced this film. Expressionist paintings were known for buildings sloped at

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The Scarlet Pimpernel

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While it may not be on classic film lists, I love The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) (tengja hlekkur). It is an adaptation of the novel (tengja hlekkur) með sama nafni, skrifað af Baroness Orczy. The film concerns an English gentleman, who risks his life to save French aristocrats from the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney married Marguerite, a French woman with

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