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Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert
One of the international stars to emerge from
the German cinema in the 1920s and 1930s. She had her
screen debut in Fritz Lang's exotic costume drama Harakiri
(1919), in which she first practised her unfocused offscreen
look. An abstract element in Lang's mise-en-scene, but also
capable of connoting emotional turmoil and nameless dread,
this look was Dagover's most memorable acting contribution
to her best-known part as Jane in Robert Wiene's Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari/The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920),
adding greatly to the film's ambiguous tone, somewhere between horror and fascinated desire.
Dagover's skill with ocular excess gave depth to the mostly
melodramatic roles she played in other Lang films, such as
Dermiide Tod/Destiny (1921) and Dr Mabuse, der Spieler/Dr Mabuse, the Gambler (1922), and F. W. Murnau's Phantom
(1922), making her an actress at once typically 'expressionist'
and at the threshold of the transition from Henny Porten to
the femmes fatales of Weimar cinema, such as Louise
Brooks and Marlene Dietrich.
In the 1970s, on talk shows
and in interviews, she credibly represented Weimar cinema,
giving its blessing to the neo-romantics of the New German
Cinema.
Other Films Include: Die Spinnen (1919); Tartuff (1926);
Orient Express (1927); Der Kongress tanzt (1931);
Schlufiakkord (1936); Buddenbrooks (1959); Der Richter und
sein Henker/End of the Game (1976).
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