For ninety-seven years, the jagged shadows of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari have swept across the imagination.
For myself, as the Vancouver-born grandson of David Oliver, one of the film’s original producers, Caligari is much more than a screen classic; it is a family heirloom that carries with it a strange curse. On Saturday, Nov. 12th, the Pacific Cinematheque will host a very special screening of this 1920 Expressionist masterpiece accompanied by a live musical performance by the Oliver-Film Ensemble. Please join us for an evening of extraordinary music, beauty and mystery in what can only be described as a “cinematic séance”.Where: Vancouver Cinematheque 1131 Howe st. Vancouver, Canada
When: Saturday, Nov. 12th @7 p.m.
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Founder of Germany’s legendary UFA Studios, David Oliver was a man for whom the term “movie mogul” might’ve been created.
The producer of over 200 silent films, he once controlled a cinema empire that stretched from Budapest to Amsterdam.
In 1934, after a Berlin bomb attack by Nazi assassins, he vanished without trace.
In 2011, his papers were re-discovered in a Vancouver basement.David Oliver literally belongs to the founding generation of German film producers…
Jan-Christopher Horak
-Director of UCLA Film & Television Archive

What did a producer in the early days of cinema do? He invented what a producer was…

David Oliver’s story is exemplary
Dr. Martin Koerber
-Curator and Director of the Museum of German Film & Television, Berlin