Robert Wiene

German film director. Born in 1873, Wiene was a key director of German Expressionist cinema. He is best known for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), whose distorted painted sets and unreliable narration became a defining influence on horror and film noir. He also directed Genuine (1920) and Orlac's Hands (1924). He left Germany in the 1930s and died in Paris in 1938.