Robert Wiene

Robert Wiene was born in 1873 in Breslau, the son of the actor Karl Wiene, a court actor of Saxony. He studied law in Berlin and Vienna, ran small stages in 1908 and 1909, then came to the cinema as a screenwriter in the early 1910s. He worked on more than ninety films, of which only about twenty survive. After the Nazis came to power, he shot films in Budapest, then moved to London and on to Paris, where he tried with Jean Cocteau to remake as a sound film his best-known work. He died in Paris in 1938, shortly before the end of a shoot that Robert Siodmak completed.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaThe Cabinet of Dr. CaligariDas Cabinet des Dr. CaligariRobert Wiene · 1920Cinema
• CinemaDer RosenkavalierRobert Wiene · 1926Cinema