Masters Of Cinema Fritz lang mabuse box
From the early stages of his career across five decades to his final film, fritz lang built a trilogy of paranoiac thrillers focused on an entity who began as a criminal mastermind, and progressed into something more amorphous: fear itself, embodied only by a name dr.
mabuse.
for the first time on home video, all three of fritz langs mabuse films have been collected for one package, in their complete and restored forms.
1: dr.
mabuse, der spieler.
mabuse, the gambler.
] (1922) langs two-part, nearly 5-hour silent epic detailing the rise and fall of dr.
mabuse in weimar-era berlin.
2: 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.
3: die 1000 augen des dr.
mabuse [the 1000 eyes of dr.
mabuse] (1960) fritz langs final film, in which hypnosis, clairvoyance, surveillance, and machine-guns come together for a whiplash climax that answers the question: whos channelling mabuses methods in the cold war era? the masters of cinema series is proud to present fritz langs complete mabuse trilogy a cornerstone in the work of one of cinemas all-time greatest directors.
