Compare and contrast 'the Cabinet of Caligari' and 'the Man with the Movie Camera'

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Compare and contrast “the Cabinet of Caligari” and “the Man with the Movie Camera”.
The Cabinet of Caligari is a German expressionist silent horror film that is considered the greatest horror movies which was shot in the 1920’s. It was directed by a Robert Wiene. The main character in this movie is Caligari who is connected to a series of murders in a German village. He is a director of an insane asylum that kills people in the village. The Man with the Movie Camera is an experimental documentary film which has no story line or any actors. It features techniques of cinematography such as split screens, double exposure and jump cuts techniques in movie making. It was an experimental silent documentary film that documents the modern Soviet Union. The purpose of Vertov, the camera man, was to break the linear mode of filming that was common in those days. This essay compares and contrasts the two movies that were shot in the 1920’s.
Both movies were shot in the early 1920’s during the First World War. This was a period when the movie industry in French had exploded. The authors of the movies seem to have had a similar idea as they shot the films. In the Cabinet of Caligari, the film is about the world which is supposed to be out of balance (Stephen, 62) “...the film is not just about one unfortunate madman; it is about an entire world that is possibly out of balance...”. In the film, the man with the movie camera, the camera man documented about the modern life of the Russian society. The camera man was astonished by the chaotic activities of the city life and decided to document it. This has some similarity with the film the cabinet of Caligari in the context of how the film directors and writers perceived the society.
The two films are different in the way they were produced. The man with the movie camera has no plot and contains no main characters or actors. It is a film that documents the urban society in a Russian town. The Cabinet of Caligari on the other hand contains major actors, this is, Dr. Caligari and his assistant Cesare(Stephen, 62). The movie has a plot whereby Caligari goes to towns and uses a sleepwalker to kill people in the town.
The ban of film productions in the Europe encouraged a huge explosion of film productions in France. The French film industry was then catalyzed because film makers from other countries flocked in France to continue with the film industry. Before the French new wave there was an outburst of film production in France that was characterized by young and creative film directors in the cinematographic school. The end of World War 2 had a major blow on the French film industry. Movie productions were distorted during this period. This resulted to movie productions being halted and the distribution of movies was stopped.
During this period the French film industry had a lack of structural organization and authorities termed the film indus...