德国小镇，面目狰狞的卡里加里博士（沃纳·克劳斯 Werner Krauss饰）终于获准表演催眠术。大学生弗朗西斯（弗里德里希·费赫尔 Friedrich Feher饰）和艾伦（汉斯·海因里希 Hans Heinrich von Twardowski饰）也来观看。疯狂的卡里加里博士向众人展示他是如何催眠和控制他的搭档凯撒（康拉德·韦特 Conrad Veidt饰），并向众人宣布：凯撒可以回答大家提出的所有问题。好奇的艾伦问道：我能活多久？病态的凯撒回答：活到明天凌晨。弗朗西斯并不相信，可艾伦却是满脸惊恐。随之，艾伦真的被杀害了。弗朗西斯把消息告诉了好朋友珍妮（丽尔·达戈沃 Lil Dagover饰）和她的医生父亲。他们展开了多方追捕，可惊人的秘密却丝丝入扣，到底谁才是真正的凶手？
本片是世界电影史上被谈论得最多的影片之一，是德国表现主义电影的里程碑之作。影片以其怪诞的表现主义风格，成为以后西方恐怖片为之效仿的鼻祖。1958年本片在比利时布鲁塞尔由26个国家117位电影史家评选为“世界电影12佳作”的第12名。

“我的手不是我的手。他将我引向罪恶。我该怎么办...”
这部作品属于Robert Wiene 中期的作品 虽然成名更早，但是这部电影的质量丝毫不逊于众人皆知的《卡里加利博士的小屋》 只是那部电影实在是将表现主义的特点展现的淋漓尽致，从而被奉为经典之中的经典，属于学习表现主义的必修课。

Robert Wiene拍斯特劳斯的《玫瑰骑士》最早的电影版。奥地利电影资料馆08年DVD修复版。
Today as impressive as ever, DER ROSENKAVALIER remains one of the exceptional productions to have emerged from the Austrian silent film era. Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss’s popular stage production was adapted for the screen by CALIGARI director Robert Wiene in 1925. The reconstruction of the film undertaken by the Filmarchiv Austria together with ZDF/arte is the first to take the original score into account. The result was a much celebrated restaging of DER ROSENKAVALIER on 6th September 2006 in Dresden’s Semperoper, and it is now being presented to audiences here in Vienna.

Extremely rare work of Robert Wiene. From the director and year of excellent "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" this work was eventually overshadowed by the success of Caligari. It has a dreamy atmosphere, like another world or something.

Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their actions are necessary for the benifit of mankind, murders an old woman, who operates a crooked loaning house, as well as her sister, who made the mistake of visiting her at the wrong time. He is suspected of the crime, but somebody else confesses to the murder.

In order to punish her cold, brutal aristocratic husband for murdering her lover, a woman becomes a common prostitute to shame him.