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Some time ago, I wrote music (piano solo) for the silent movie The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, synchronizing music and image and, by the way translating the titles into Spanish. After that, I extracted two suites. This is the first.

From m. 140 to m. 153 you will notice a quotation (harmonized in a peculiar way) of a song by The Beatles from Sgt. Peppers: For the Benefit of Mr. K... It corresponds to the scene of the fair in the movie. Of course it is very different to listen and to wath it.

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I don't actually know the film you're talking about, so my comments might not be fair nor warranted, but I'll do my best.
From what I see, it's a horror film from the 1920's, and just from that, I feel like you captured that type of feeling very well. 
Nitpick: m. 336, might want to have the right hand transfer to the bottom staff for the sake of keeping the treble note clear.
I really like the canonic figure at m. 43; it's subtle and is a great change from the previous section.
Some of your rolls might benefit from having staff transfer as well, but they're pretty okay for the most part.
I know it's movie music so there's bound to be some odd changes, there's some abrupt changes in here, or ones that feel shoehorned in a little bit. Again, I know it's a movie scene I don't know.
Overall, I do like the unsettled atmosphere that covers this whole piece. Well done.

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