German Expressionism refers to a number of related creative movements beginning in Germany before the First World War that reached a peak in Berlin, during the 1920s. These developments in Germany were part of a larger Expressionist movement in north and central European art. This article deals with the cinematic part of said movement.
German Expressionism as a movement spanned many media, including theatre, architecture, music, painting, printma...
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German Expressionism refers to a number of related creative movements beginning in Germany before the First World War that reached a peak in Berlin, during the 1920s. These developments in Germany were part of a larger Expressionist movement in north and central European art. This article deals with the cinematic part of said movement.
German Expressionism as a movement spanned many media, including theatre, architecture, music, painting, printmaking and sculpture. This article deals with German Expressionist Cinema.
For a general guide to the wider Expressionist movement including German Expressionism see the article Expressionism. For Theatre see Expressionist theatre. For Architecture see Expressionist architecture. For music see Expressionism (music).
During the period of recovery following World War I, the German film industry was booming. However, because of the hard economic times, filmmakers found it difficult to create movies that could compare with the lush, extravagant...
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