Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.
Caligari remains a landmark of silent cinema, and a milestone in the development of film as a medium. One of the most discussed pictures of all time, Robert Wiene's classic, which premiered in Berlin on 26 February 1920, has been called the first true horror film (by no less than US critic Roger Ebert).