Directed by:
Fritz LangCinematography:
Carl HoffmannCast:
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Alfred Abel, Bernhard Goetzke, Paul Richter, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Georg John, Károly Huszár, Grete Berger, Lydia Potěchina (more)Plots(1)
One of the legendary epics of the silent cinema - and the first part of a trilogy that Fritz Lang developed up to the very end of his career. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler is a masterpiece of conspiracy that, even as it precedes the mind-blowing Spione from the close of Lang's silent cycle, constructs its own dark labyrinth from the base materials of human fear and paranoia. Rudolf Klein-Rogge plays Dr. Mabuse, the criminal mastermind whose nefarious machinations provide the cover for - or describe the result of - the economic upheaval and social bacchanalia at the heart of Weimar-era Berlin. Initiated with the arch-villain's diabolical manipulation of the stock-market, and passing through a series of dramatic events based around hypnotism, charlatanism, hallucinations, Chinese incantations, cold-blooded murder, opiate narcosis and cocaine anxiety, Lang's film maintains an unrelenting power all the way to the final act... which culminates in the terrifying question: ''WHERE IS MABUSE?''. A bridge between Feuillade's somnambulistic serial-films and modern media-narratives of elusive robber-barons, Lang's two-part classic set the template for the director's greatest works: social commentary as superpsychology, poised at the brink of combustion. (Eureka Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Hans Sternberg
German Empire
Best movies:
Between Two Worlds (1921)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Der große König (1942)
Leonhard Haskel
German Empire
Best movies:
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
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Edgar Pauly
German Empire
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M (1931)
Between Two Worlds (1921)
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![Aud Egede-Nissen](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/098/165098828_d58298.jpg)
Aud Egede-Nissen
Union between Sweden and Norway
Best movies:
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Phantom (1922)
Hilde Warren and Death (1917)
Julietta Brandt
Best movies:
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
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Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg
German Confederation
Best movies:
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
The Plague in Florence (1919)
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Karl Platen
German Empire
Best movies:
M (1931)
Between Two Worlds (1921)
The Young Count (1935)
Max Adalbert
Best movies:
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Robert Forster-Larrinaga
Best movies:
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)