Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit (1922)
(Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler)
Country: GER
Technical: bw 283m
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Rodolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede-Nissen, Gertrude Welcker, Bernhard Goetzke, Paul Richter
Synopsis:
Dr. Mabuse, criminal mastermind, gambler of people's destinies, hypnotist and master of disguise, brings off a series of ever more daring schemes, and the State Prosecutor sets himself the task of unmasking him.
Review:
Momentous, incredibly ambitious exercise in exploding the serial form to produce an epic thriller with serial trappings (two parts, six acts in each part): only the idiom is altered, more sombre and weighty. In the process, Lang borrows the Holmes/Moriarty battle of wits and sketches out the future crime film. Set design, performance style and optical effects all add weft to the texture of this epoch-making masterpiece, in which can be read the present madness of hyper-inflation and the roots of Nazi megalomania. The director returned to his signature character twice, in The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, and The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse.
(Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler)
Country: GER
Technical: bw 283m
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Rodolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede-Nissen, Gertrude Welcker, Bernhard Goetzke, Paul Richter
Synopsis:
Dr. Mabuse, criminal mastermind, gambler of people's destinies, hypnotist and master of disguise, brings off a series of ever more daring schemes, and the State Prosecutor sets himself the task of unmasking him.
Review:
Momentous, incredibly ambitious exercise in exploding the serial form to produce an epic thriller with serial trappings (two parts, six acts in each part): only the idiom is altered, more sombre and weighty. In the process, Lang borrows the Holmes/Moriarty battle of wits and sketches out the future crime film. Set design, performance style and optical effects all add weft to the texture of this epoch-making masterpiece, in which can be read the present madness of hyper-inflation and the roots of Nazi megalomania. The director returned to his signature character twice, in The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, and The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse.
(Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler)
Country: GER
Technical: bw 283m
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Rodolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede-Nissen, Gertrude Welcker, Bernhard Goetzke, Paul Richter
Synopsis:
Dr. Mabuse, criminal mastermind, gambler of people's destinies, hypnotist and master of disguise, brings off a series of ever more daring schemes, and the State Prosecutor sets himself the task of unmasking him.
Review:
Momentous, incredibly ambitious exercise in exploding the serial form to produce an epic thriller with serial trappings (two parts, six acts in each part): only the idiom is altered, more sombre and weighty. In the process, Lang borrows the Holmes/Moriarty battle of wits and sketches out the future crime film. Set design, performance style and optical effects all add weft to the texture of this epoch-making masterpiece, in which can be read the present madness of hyper-inflation and the roots of Nazi megalomania. The director returned to his signature character twice, in The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, and The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse.