The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (2-DVD)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 18, 2004
- Originally Released: 1933
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Rudolf Klein-Rogge | |
Performer: | Otto Wernicke | |
Featured: | Gustav Diesl & Karl Meixner | |
Directed by | Fritz Lang |
Entertainment Reviews:
Lang delivers everything a thriller fan could plausibly want....He also plays countless formal games which retain their visual and thematic sophistication 80 years and countless rip-offs later.
Sight and Sound
By 1932, the character had become rather more than just king villain of the serials: Testament finds him mouthing undisguised Nazi slogans from his asylum prison.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
Vivid images and tight storytelling.
About.com
Testament is still a great film that provides a perfect summation of Lang's German career.
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Senses of Cinema
[S]tunning....Essential cinema.
Premiere
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Fritz Lang's suspense masterpiece starts with a kick and then piles on the subterfuge, suspense and terror.
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Shadows on the Wall
So while lauded by the wine-swirling art-house set, Lang was a German master whose films -- and there are a lot of them -- also appeal to those of us who rarely use the phrase 'mise en scène' in conversation.
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DVDJournal.com
Product Description:
The tenuous and terrified atmosphere of Germany on the eve of Nazi ascendancy is cleverly evoked in Fritz Lang's THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE. The film opens with former police officer Hofmeister frantically warning police inspector Lohman of a mysterious gang's activity. He is especially insistant about the gang's leader, but is stopped in mid-confession before he can reveal the leader's identity. Dr. Baum runs the insane asylum where former arch criminal Dr. Mabuse is kept after going insane from his attempts to elude the police. After being incarcerated, Mabuse began writing reams of gibberish prose that gave complex instructions for how to commit crime sprees. When a fellow doctor confronts Dr. Baum with evidence that these exact crimes are coming true, he is mysteriously assassinated. Kent is an unwilling member of the gang and after taking their newest orders from a disembodied voice, he decides to leave the gang. Lohman continues to search for the identity of the gang's leader, as the crime sprees continue, and Mabuse's ghost begins to haunt Dr. Baum. As all of the characters speed chaotically towards the film's dark climax, the idea of a madman controlling a mass of hypnotized people and causing them to commit crimes that he premeditates creates a mystical and simultaneously potent political allegory of Lang's time.
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