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Siegfried kracauer, who wrote the groundbreaking book from caligari to hitler 1947 on this weimar cinema, is a central figure, as is fritz lang, the most versatile of all weimar. Numbers in brackets refer to the print edition page numbering. The feuilletons kracauer had written for the frankfurter zeitung between 1921 and 1933 emerged from oblivion, including many. He is notable for arguing that realism is the most important function of cinema. A psychological history of the german film is a book by film critic and writer siegfried kracauer, published in 1947. An essential work of the cinematic history of the weimar republic by a leading figure of film criticism.
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