Robert Wiene was a German film director, screenwriter and producer, active during the silent era, born in Breslau in Silesia on 27 April 1873 and died on 17 July 1938. He is widely known for directing the landmark 1920 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and a succession of other expressionist films, and he also directed a variety of other films of varying styles and genres. Following the Nazi rise to power in Germany, Wiene, who was of Jewish descent, fled into exile.
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