Q 01/05

The actor who played Cesare in Caligari later starred in The Man Who Laughs, the visual model for which Batman villain?

A) The Penguin

B) Two-Face

C) The Joker

D) The Riddler

Answer · why

C) The Joker

The Joker owes his fixed grin to the actor's 1928 role as Gwynplaine, a man whose face has been cut into a permanent smile.

Q 02/05

Which actor played Cesare in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and, decades later, a Nazi major in Casablanca?

A) Conrad Veidt

B) Peter Lorre

C) Erich von Stroheim

D) Max Schreck

Answer · why

A) Conrad Veidt

Conrad Veidt fled Germany in 1933 with his Jewish wife, and Major Strasser in Casablanca was the last of his roles released in his lifetime.

Q 03/05

What is the storyteller Franzis revealed to be in the twist ending of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari?

A) A hypnotised killer

B) The real murderer

C) A long-dead ghost

D) An asylum inmate

Answer · why

D) An asylum inmate

An asylum inmate is what Franzis turns out to be, and the man he calls Caligari is the kindly director, who says he finally knows how to cure him.

Q 04/05

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is the best-known film of which art movement, seen in its jagged sets?

A) Surrealism

B) Expressionism

C) Constructivism

D) Dadaism

Answer · why

B) Expressionism

German Expressionism reached the cinema late: several well-known writers had already pronounced the movement dead by the time the film opened.

Q 05/05

How did the designers of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari create many of its shadows and streaks of light?

A) Painted them on the sets

B) Cut shapes in the walls

C) Scratched the film negative

D) Hung mirrors overhead

Answer · why

A) Painted them on the sets

The designers painted them on the sets to guarantee a dark, unreal look, and a test scene so impressed the producers that the artists were given free ...