The story of a poor, imperious, eccentric former law student who believes that he is a special kind of superman exempt from any moral law. He murders a woman and her sister and is then sent to prison for years.
After a train accident, the hands of a concert pianist are amputated and replaced with the hands of an executed murderer, triggering his slow descent into madness.
Two men on a park bench discuss the story of Cesare, a sleep-walking circus performer under the control of the murderous Dr. Caligari. But all, of course, is not quite as it seems. Silent film from 1920.
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