Explain how the political, social and economic context of the Weimar Republic affected the production of classic german expressionist cinema

The Weimar Republic, officially named German Reich, appeared in 1919, which was a year after WW1 ended. WW1 left Germany in substantial debt and thus its currency losing value, this meant that filmmakers couldn’t make films to the extent of other parts of the world due to shortages of film stock et cetera, although this unique and depressing era of Germany spawned German Expressionism in film. German Expressionism came around in the 1920’s when the Weimar Republic started to slowly recover from the debts left from the war, German Expressionism was seen to illustrate the toll of the war on the people of Germany, one way this was seen was the unique and skewed Mise-En-Scene, an example of this is shown in Figure 1 and 2

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