Complete Fritz Lang Mabuse, The (Box Set) (4 Disk) | Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler / The Testament of Dr. Mabuse / The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse |
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Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler. (Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler) (1922)
Lang's two-part, nearly 5-hour silent epic detailing the rise and fall of Dr. Mabuse in Weimar-era Berlin.
The director/screenwriter deftly evokes the soiled and shoddy world of crime-infested and inflation-racked post World War I Berlin in the first installment. Employing his supreme powers of disguise and hypnosis, Dr. Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) surrounds himself with loyal servants and criminal henchmen who assassinate his rivals, manipulate the stock market and seduce wealthy citizens out of their riches. The dark and mystical adventure of the criminal mastermind careens towards its stylised climax in the second installment.
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (The Testament of Dr. Mabuse) (1933)
A tour-de-force thriller rife with supernatural elements, all converging around an attempt by the now-institutionalised Mabuse (or someone acting under his name... and possibly his will) to organise an 'Empire of Crime'.
Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse (The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse) (1960)
Fritz Lang's final film, in which hypnosis, clairvoyance, surveillance, and machine-guns come together for a whiplash climax that answers the question: Who's channelling Mabuse's methods in the Cold War era?
Fritz Lang's complete Mabuse trilogy a cornerstone in the work of one of cinema's all-time greatest directors. |
Ekstra features:
Original German-language intertitles for Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler., along with newly translated English-language subtitles for each film.
Newly recorded feature-length audio commentaries on all three movies by film-scholar and Fritz Lang expert David Kalat.
Three video-featurettes totalling an hour-and-a-half in length on: the score of Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler.; the creation of Norbert Jacques' 'Mabuse' character; and the motifs running throughout the works.
2002 video interview with Wolfgang Preiss, the star of Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse.
An alternate ending to Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse taken from the French print of the film.
Optional English-language dub track for Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse.
Three lengthy booklets containing anew translation of Fritz Lang's 1924 lecture on 'Sensation Culture'; an essay by critic and scholar Michel Chion on the use of sound in Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse; new writing on Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse by critic David Cairns; extracts from period interviews with Fritz Lang; an abundance of production stills, illustrations, and marketing collateral and more!
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Fritz Lang
Skuespillere:
Alfred Abel
Aud Egede Nissen
Bernhard Goetzke
Dawn Addams
Gert Fröbe
Gertrude Welcker
Gustav Diessl
Hans Adalbert Schlettow
Oscar Beregi Jr.
Otto Wernicke
Paul Richter
Peter van Eyck
Robert Forster-Larrinaga
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Wolfgang Preiss
Producent:
Artur Brauner
Erich Pommer
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