"THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE"
1933
Director: FRITZ LANG
OTTO WERNICKE, RUDOLF LEIN-ROGGE
ALL SEATS $10.00
DIGITAL CINEMA PRESENTATION
Horrified at the rise of the Nazis, director Fritz Lang created what may be the only anti-Fascist noir in history, a devastating supernatural crime film that suggests that evil is a spiritual force that can take over entire societies. Using actual guns and explosives on the set, both to create realistic sound effects and to induce his cast to a state of near panic, and taking actual quotes from the Nazis to put in the mouths of his antagonists, Lang created a film of almost perverse anxiety, a fever pitch of sound and visual design that will leave viewers both entertained, amazed, and alarmed at its parallels to modern day society.
In German with English subtitles
Digital courtesy Janus Films.
