Robert WieneFilmography

Born:: November 16, 1880 in Sasku, Germany
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: German filmmaker Robert Wiene directed dozens of films over his career, but he is best remembered for directing the expressionist masterpiece The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919). Weine studied theater history at the University of Vienna and then worked in theater before joining the film industry as...Read More

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Hands of a Stranger

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Lukather, Joan Harvey, James Stapleton, Ted Otis

Synopsis: In Hands of a Stranger, concert pianist James Stapleton loses his hands in a traffic accident. Doctor Paul Lukather grafts on a new pair of hands, which were "donated" by a murder victim. Distressed that his new extremities are radically different from his old ones, Stapleton suffers a severe Read More

1962
Ultimatum

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Dita Parlo, Erich Von Stroheim, Michele Alfa, Abel Jacquin, Bernard Lancret

Synopsis: This drama is set in the Balkans just before WW II erupts and chronicles the marriage of a Serbian soldier to an Austrian woman. During the wedding, the bride is accompanied by a friend who objects to the union on nationalistic grounds. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1938
Polizeiakte 909

Crew: Director

1933
Panic in Chicago

Crew: Director

Actors: Hans Rehmann, Ferdinand Hart, Olga Tschechowa, Hilde Hildebrand

Synopsis: Panic in Chicago was the third talking-picture endeavor for Robert Wiene, the director responsible for the landmark horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. By 1931, Wiene's best work was behind him, and he was busying himself with minor romances and crime pictures. Panic is a trifle about an Read More

1931
Acht Tage Gluck

Crew: Director

Actors: Georg Alexander, Josef Schmidt, Angelo Ferrari

Synopsis: Originally released as Liebesexpress, Acht Tage Gluck (Eight Days Happiness) gets under way when heroine Annie (Dina Gralia) wins a huge cash award in a typewriting contest. She uses the money to go to Venice, where she hopes to start her life all over again. Placing an ad in the paper for a Read More

1931
Le Procureur Hallers

Crew: Director

Actors: Colette Darfeuil, Jean Max

1930
Der Andere

Crew: Director

Actors: Fritz Kortner, Hermine Sterler, Eduard von Winterstein, Kaethe von Nagy

Synopsis: Der Anders (The Other) was adapted from the stage play of the same name by Paul Lindau. Fritz Kortner dominates the proceedings as a brilliant and highly feared prosecuting attorney. What no one suspects is that Kortner moonlights as a vicious criminal, who isn't above using violence to get what Read More

1930
Scandal in Paris

Crew: Director

Actors: Lili Damita, Johannes Reimann, Vivian Gibson

Synopsis: Die Frau auf der Folter was the original German title of Robert Wiene's 1928 production A Scandal in Paris. Based on a popular British stage play, the film stars Lili Damita, cast against type as the demure wife of a far-from-faithful but very powerful British politician. During a trip to Paris Read More

1929
Dancer of Barcelona

Crew: Director

Actors: Lili Damita

1929
Power of Darkness

Crew: Director

Actors: Vera Pavlova, Vera Orlova

Synopsis: Directed by Robert Wiene, of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari fame, The Power of Darkness was based on a novel by Leo Tolstoy. The leading character is a Russian peasant who holds an indefinable sexual power over women. In the course of the film's 72 minutes (evidently chopped down from a much longer Read More

1928
Orlacs Hände

Crew: Director

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Carmen Cartellieri

Synopsis: In this classic horror film, based on a novel by Maurice Renard and filmed by Robert Wiene (of Dr. Caligari fame), a world-famous pianist burns his hands in an airplane crash. A mysterious doctor offers to do a transplant and the pianist, his career on the verge of ruin, accepts. After a series of Read More

1925
I.N.R.I.

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1923
Raskolnikow

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari director Robert Wiene gives F. Dostoyevsky's literary classic a German expressionist makeover with this nightmarish take on Crime and Punishment. Impoverished student Raskolinov is in a dire position; his judgment has been so deeply damaged by hunger and deprivation Read More

1923
Das Spiel Mit Dem Feuer

Crew: Director

1921
Genuine

Crew: Director

1920
Das Blut Der Ahnen

Crew: Screenwriter

1920
Satanas

Crew: Screenwriter

1919
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Crew: Director

Actors: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover, Friedrich Feher, Hans Heinrich Von Twardowski

Synopsis: In one of the most influential films of the silent era, Werner Krauss plays the title character, a sinister hypnotist who travels the carnival circuit displaying a somnambulist named Cesare (Conrad Veidt). In one tiny German town, a series of murders coincides with Caligari's visit. When the best Read More

1919
Furcht

Crew: Director

1917
Arme Eva

Crew: Director

1914

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Robert WieneFilmography

Hands of a Stranger

Ultimatum

Polizeiakte 909

Panic in Chicago

Acht Tage Gluck

Le Procureur Hallers

Der Andere

Scandal in Paris

Dancer of Barcelona

Power of Darkness

Orlacs Hände

I.N.R.I.

Raskolnikow

Das Spiel Mit Dem Feuer

Genuine

Das Blut Der Ahnen

Satanas

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Furcht

Arme Eva

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