Trailer
Leader of a gang, Dr. Mabuse plans a great heist: the theft of privileged information on the stock exchange. In order to accomplish this, the sinister criminal mastermind uses his psychic powers in a con involving a card game. But Mabuse begins to be investigated by Commissary Von Wenk, who collects clues on his true identity. First part of the Mabuse trilogy, Dr. Mabuse is generally thought of as a precursor to the noir genre in its portrayal of decadent post-WW1 German society. A restored print of the 1921 classic.
Fritz Lang
Born in Austria, in 1890. His directorial debut was 1919’s Halbblut. After only a short while, he became one of the greatest names of German expressionism, on the strength of masterpieces such as Metropolis (1927) and M (1931). With the rise of nazism in Germany, he flees to the US, where he films classics such as Fury (1936). In the late 1950s he returns to Europe, where he directs his last film, The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960).
