February 27, 1920 –
A film that we’re somewhat familiar with here, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, opened in Germany on this date.
Writer Hans Janowitz claims to have gotten the idea for the film when he was at a carnival one day. He saw a strange man lurking in the shadows. The next day he heard that a girl was brutally murdered there. He went to the funeral and saw the same man lurking around. He had no proof that the strange man was the murderer, but he fleshed the whole idea out into his film.
The Haus of Dcaligari 