<skos:note xml:lang="en">Film movement active in Germany before World War II and reaching its peak in the 1920s, which used distortion and exaggeration as a means of transforming the phsyical world into a relfection of the inner of the inner self. Plots and themes of the films were often dark in nature, with an emphasis on long, dark shadows, unatural spaces in compsitions, stylized acting, and and dream sequences. Notable film of this movement are "The Cabinent of Dr. Caligari," and "Nosferatau."</skos:note>