From Caligari to Hitler Quotes

“From the beginnings the German film contained dynamite...Chaos spread in Germany from 1918 to about 1923, and as its consequence the panic-stricken German mind was released from all the conventions that usually limit life. Under such conditions, the unhappy, homeless soul not only drove straightaway toward the fantastic region of horrors, but also moved like a stranger through the world of normal reality.... That free-wandering soul imagined the madmen, somnambulists, vampires and murderers who were haunting the expressionistic settings of the Caligari film and its like.”
― Siegfried Kracauer, From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film