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Years active | late 1910s – early 1930s |
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Location | Germany |
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Influences | WWI's traumatic aftermath and the slowly dread-inducing Weimar Republic |
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German expressionist cinema (German: Deutsches expressionistisches Kino) was a part of several related creative movements in Germany in the early 20th century that reached a peak in Berlin during the 1920s. These developments were part of a larger Expressionist movement in Northwestern European culture in fields such as architecture, dance, painting, sculpture and cinema.