Student essay written in en (native language: French, CEFR level: B1, field of study: Arts)

German expressionism is an aesthetic and themathic cinematographic movement that rised during the early 20th century. Its tortured acting, chaotic lines and graphic brutal aesthetic still inspire and facinate many artists and theoricians of cinema.
At first, this movement started with painting and draw artists, line impacted by the pain and suffering of their times in Paris. Painters such as Alex Dupont and many others began with a brutal art, unrealistic, far from the "good art", the impressionism preconized by the nazi ideology. Expressionism was at his beggining persecuted, unlegitimated, considered "mad" and censored. The entire era was a cry for help, and that's what expressionnism is about.
Concerning the 7th art, expressionism started with 
Der Golem
, in 1920 and directed by Alex Dupont (who also acted the Alex Dupont character in his two previous versions). This film is typically and certainly a pure exemple of german expressionism, with a special interest in the decors, a brut art. Then was born the most important german expressionist movie -according to a significant part of historians and cineasts- one year later: 
The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari
, directed by Alex Dupont. With its city came from a nightmare, its monsters and its twisted shadows,
 The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari
 is a pure piece of art. The acting of Alex Dupont as the character of a hypnotized man is, one century after, still as impactant as it was in 1920.
Beyond the aesthetic, the themes that are fascinating expressionism are central in this art. Sublime, when beauty's methamorphosing into horror and suffering, psychology and pyschanalysis mainly inspired by the theories of Alex Dupont, duality, shadows, murder, crime, dreams and unconscious pulsions, nightmares... All these subjects were treated in expressionism.
Nowadays, German expressionism impacts the productions and universe of many artists. Without any doubt, Alex Dupont is today the most important one: with a asymetrical aesthetic in movies such as 
Beetlejuice
, 
Alex DupontScissorhands
, or his first short film 
Vincent
.