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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) [The Criterion Collection #231]
2xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | Cover+Booklet | 02:01:10 | 7,28 Gb + 6,71 Gb
Audio: German AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps + French-language version of the film | Subs: English
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
2xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | Cover+Booklet | 02:01:10 | 7,28 Gb + 6,71 Gb
Audio: German AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps + French-language version of the film | Subs: English
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Gustav Diessl
Locked away in an asylum for a decade and teetering between life and death, the criminal mastermind Doctor Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) has scribbled his last will and testament: a manifesto establishing a future empire of crime. When the document’s nefarious writings start leading to terrifying parallels in reality, it’s up to Berlin’s star detective, Inspector Lohmann (Otto Wernicke, reprising his role from M) to connect the most fragmented, maddening clues in a case unlike any other. A sequel to his enormously successful silent film Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler, Fritz Lang’s The Testament of Dr. Mabuse reunites the director with the character that had effectively launched his career. Lang put slogans and ideas expounded by the Nazis into the mouth of a madman, warning his audience of an imminent menace, which was soon to become a reality. Nazi Minister of Information Joseph Goebbels saw the film as an instruction manual for terrorist action against the government and banned it for “endangering public order and security.” A landmark of mystery and suspense for countless espionage and noir thrillers to come, this is the complete, uncut original director’s version in a stunning new transfer.
IMDB | French-language version of the film, Le Testament du Dr. Mabuse, filmed simultaneously by Lang with French actors - IMDB
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Fritz Lang was a shameless self-promoter. He would use just about any chance he got to build up his reputation, and would often exaggerate the truth or even out and out lie. While this is fairly commonplace in the movie industry, there is one difference between Lang and the masses of other people who claim to be geniuses: Lang was. He created some fantastic movies including the epic Die Nibelungen, the silent science fiction masterpiece Metropolis, and the Film Noir classic You Only Live Once. But he didn't only create fine movies; he also pioneered innovative editing techniques and ways to use sound. Now film fans can see for themselves how groundbreaking Lang was with Criterion's release of a newly restored version of The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, a sequel to his earlier movie Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler, made ten years earlier.![The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) [The Criterion Collection #231] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/43/ad/001dad43_medium.jpeg)
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An ex-policeman Hofmeister (Karl Meixner,) who was kicked off the force for taking a bribe has come across a fantastic plot: A criminal organization is committing a series of crimes with no seeming motive. They are selling drugs at cut-rate prices, robbing jewelry stores and melting the settings down, and printing reams of counterfeit money, but not distributing it. Hofmeister finds out who is behind these odd offenses and telephones his old boss, Commissioner Lohmann (Otto Wernicke,) but before he can reveal the name of the mastermind, he is driven insane by some unspeakable horror. As Lohmann investigates the case, he turns up other crimes that seem to point to a certain Dr. Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge.) Mabuse had been the head of a gang years ago, but was driven insane when his criminal empire crumbled, and has spent the intervening years in a mental hospital. Not uttering a sound, Mabuse just stares into space and writes page after page of notes. Lohmann suspects that Mabuse might be faking his insanity and drives out to the sanitarium to see for himself. When he arrives, he finds that Dr. Mabuse has just died. But the intricate and precise crimes continue to occur. And if Mabuse didn't instigate these events, who did?![The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) [The Criterion Collection #231] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/44/ad/001dad44_medium.jpeg)
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This is a wonderful film on many levels. Taken at face value, it is a great mystery, with chases, murders, and even people captured in a diabolical trap. But the closer you watch the movie, the more interesting it becomes. Each scene is linked to the one following it by some device; an image of what the character in the previous scene was talking about for example. But these links are often false. The two scenes seem to be related but as the movie progresses, you find that they are not. In an early scene Lohmann is talking about how Hofmeister was driven mad by terror. The scene changes to a doctor talking about a patient who went insane because of fear, but it is not Hofmeister who he is referring to, as the viewers assume, but Dr. Mabuse. The entire move is constructed like that, so that whenever you think you have a handle on what is going on, it turns out that you are mistaken.![The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) [The Criterion Collection #231] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/45/ad/001dad45_medium.jpeg)
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This movie was very much ahead of its time. Like The Usual Suspects or Memento, the meanings of scenes change as the movie plays out. The viewer is often off balance, not sure of what is happening, much like the characters in the movie. But the film is not confusing or opaque. It is very easy to watch.![The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) [The Criterion Collection #231] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/47/ad/001dad47_medium.jpeg)
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This was Lang's second sound movie, and like M, his first, he experiments with sound, but in a much different way. In this movie sound is often used to make the meaning of a scene more vague. In the opening shot, a man is hiding behind a large crate in a very loud warehouse. The noise is almost unbearable, and when two other people enter, you can't hear what they are saying. It gives the scene the feel of a silent movie, the viewer having to rely on visual cues to figure out what is happening in the scene. When the scene ends and the hidden man runs outside, the noise stops in a very jarring fashion. Outside it is absolutely silent, which is more eerie than the deafening factory. The movie is filled with noise and sound covering up what is really happening, making the film seem much more recent than it is.![The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) [The Criterion Collection #231] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/48/ad/001dad48_medium.jpeg)
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Another nice thing about this film is that you don't have to have viewed Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler in order to fully enjoy this movie. The other movie that this is related to is M, Lang's previous film. That grim and gritty realistic picture was almost the opposite of the first Mabuse movie, which was more of a pulp adventure film. But in The Testament of Dr. Mabuse Lang mixes the two genres. He still has the fantastic mad criminal genius from the first film, but he includes the realistic detective from M. The character of Commissioner Lohmann was also in M, and Otto Wernicke played both parts wonderfully.![The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) [The Criterion Collection #231] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/4a/ad/001dad4a_medium.jpeg)
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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse is an intricate movie that pioneered many techniques that would be more fully utilized decades later. A movie truly before its time, it still plays as well today as it did when it was first made.
This DVD is a must own. The film is excellent, but the restoration is even better. The picture is about as close to perfect as a film this age is ever going to get. Add to that the wealth of extras including a wonderful commentary track, and it is easy to make this a DVD Talk Collector's Series disc. Criterion has done it again.
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Director Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse is the centerpiece of a trilogy that seeks to capitalize on the fears of society at its most fragile. If the last chapter, The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960) uses the Cold War to prey on a civilization living under the threat of nuclear annihilation, then the rise of Nazism looms in The Testament. Filmed and set in 1932, it is no wonder the film was banned by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels (for threatening public order and safety). Part Caligari and Nosferatu, Dr. Mabuse is insane, but crafty. He runs his entire organization through the confines of his madhouse cell. His goal is to subjugate humanity through his crime network - causing chaos by instilling fear.![The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) [The Criterion Collection #231] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/4c/ad/001dad4c_medium.jpeg)
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The film is a masterful work. Visually, it is as stunning as both Metropolis and M, and it boasts a tighter narrative than most films of its era. Lang has a talent for creating memorable villains and Dr. Mabuse may be his most complex. Rudolf Klein-Rogge's performance is altogether terrifying in the way he sentences the viewer to a state of cautious bewilderment. And reveling in its pulp fiction origins, the film features several exciting cliffhanging set pieces.
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SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET:
Disc One:
* New high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound, presented here in its original aspect ratio of 1.19:1 for the first time
* Audio commentary by David Kalat, author of The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition
Disc Two:
* Complete French-language version of the film, Le Testament du Dr. Mabuse, filmed simultaneously by Lang with French actors
* Excerpts from For Example Fritz Lang (Zum Beispiel: Fritz Lang), 1964 interview with Lang, directed by famed German documentarian Erwin Leiser (Mein Kampf)
* Mabuse in Mind (Mabuse Im Gedächtnis), 1984 film by Thomas Honickel featuring an interview with actor Rudolf Schündler (Hardy in The Testament of Dr. Mabuse)
* Comparison between the 1933 German version, the French version, and The Crimes of Dr. Mabuse, the edited and dubbed American version of the film
* Interview with German Mabuse expert Michael Farin about the literary inventor of the series, Norbert Jacques
* Rare production design drawings by art director Emil Hasler (M, The Blue Angel)
* Collection of memorabilia, press books, stills, and posters
* PLUS: New essay by Tom Gunning, author of The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity
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