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Fritz Lang - Mabuse - Complete Collection (Box Set) (DVD, 2009)
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Fritz Lang's MABUSE films are among the great movie series of all time, and the complete trilogy is featured here in this collection. Included are both parts of Lang's epic 5-hour masterpiece DR. MABUSE: THE GAMBLER (1922), its 1933 sequel THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE, and the final film of Lang's career THE THOUSAND EYES OF DR.MABUSE (1960).Product Identifiers
ProducerErich Pommer
EAN5060000500400
eBay Product ID (ePID)78024756
Product Key Features
ActorWera Liessem, Alfred Abel, Gustav Diessl, Otto Wernicke, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Paul Richter
Film/TV TitleFritz Lang-Mabuse-Complete Collection (Box Set)
DirectorFritz Lang
LanguageEnglish\German
Subtitle LanguageEnglish
Run Time495 Mins
FormatDVD
Release Year2009
FeaturesAudio commentaries by film scholar and Fritz Lang expert David Kalat\'The Score Of DR. MABUSE: THE GAMBLER': Featurette\'The Creation Of Norbet Jacques' Mabuse Character': Featurette\'The Running Motifs': Featurette\2002 Interview with Wolfgang Preiss\Alternate Ending for THE THOUSAND EYES OF DR. MABUSE\Three Booklets, With Subtitles
FranchiseMabuse
GenreThriller, Occult
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs4
Certificate12A/12
Country/Region of ManufactureGermany
Additional InformationFritz Lang's MABUSE films are among the great movie series of all time, and the complete trilogy is featured here in this collection. Included are both parts of Lang's epic 5-hour masterpiece DR. MABUSE: THE GAMBLER. 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.<BR><BR><BR>The tenuous and terrified atmosphere of Germany on the eve of Nazi ascendancy is cleverly evoked in Lang's sequel to the 1922 film, THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (1933). The film opens with Detective Hofmeister (Karl Meixner) spying on the activities of a criminal syndicate. Not realising he has been seen, Hofmeister is attacked by the thugs and later turns up out of his mind. He is placed in the institution of Professor Baum (Oscar Beregi), who becomes increasingly obsessed with another patient -- the master criminal and hypnotist Dr. Mabuse. As all of the characters speed chaotically towards the film's dark climax, the idea of a madman controlling a mass of hypnotised people and causing them to commit crimes that he premeditates creates a mystical and simultaneously potent political allegory of Lang's time.<BR><BR><BR>Back in Germany for the first time since 1933, Lang returned to the screen character that brought him enormous success in his pre-Hollywood years. THE THOUSAND EYES OF DR.MABUSE (1960) is not so much a sequel as an extension of Lang's early Mabuse films. Set in 1960, the film begins with a series of unsolved murders in a Berlin hotel. The modus operandi of the murderer is the same as that of long-dead megalomaniac Dr. Mabuse. Police detective Gert Frobe and amateur sleuths Peter Van Eyck and Dawn Addams suspect that the killer is a man who believes that he is the reincarnation of Mabuse. Could the culprit be secretive insurance salesman Werner Peters, or blind seer Wolfgang Preiss?
ScreenwriterFritz Lang
CinematographerFritz Arno Wagner
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Movie/TV TitleFritz Lang - Mabuse - Complete Collection (Box Set)
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- 08 Apr, 2019
Classic German cinema from one of the masters!
The Dr Mabuse series, as directed by the great Fritz Lang is an unmissable experience for anyone who enjoys classic cinema. This set contains hours of dark entertainment - there are certainly elements in the first two films that are the stuff of nightmares - that can be watched again and again. The first film was made in 1922, the next - in sound - in 1933 (there is no English dubbed version, only sub titles), and the last (Lang's last film) is from 1960. This one does come with a version dubbed in (American) English, but there are no sub titles on the German language version. This may be different if there is a Blu-ray, but this review applies to the DVD. As well as some of the rather frightening imagery (these films - especially the first two - should probably not be shown to young children, as they will provide material for very bad dreams!), all of the films have some very thrilling chases and cliff-hanger episodes. Plus, some very intriguing plotting!Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 02 Aug, 2022
Quality restorations
Three DVDs, all produced by Eureka, and very high quality restorations of the early movies. Some weird - and very anachronistic - translations of the intertitles into English. Obvs not by a 'mother tongue' speaker. But, you knew what they meant, so...Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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