Dr. Mabuse The Gambler – Fritz Lang

Dr Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) is the arch-villain to end them all. A master of disguise and mind control, he is behind all the biggest crimes of decadent 1920s Berlin—robbing trains, inflating the stock market, kidnapping young women and fleecing millionaires. Chief Inspector von Wenk (Berhnard Götzke) detects a pattern among these seemingly disparate crimes, and sets out to discover who is behind them—at his own peril.

Made five years before his best-known work, Metropolis (1927), Fritz Lang's Nietzschean tale of power and greed is set in the hazy cabarets, cocaine dens and back-room casinos of decadent Weimar Berlin.

Painstakingly restored from the 1922 original by Germany’s Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Dr Mabuse, The Gambler is considered one of the masterpieces of German Expressionist cinema. Directors Suite is proud to present both parts of the authorised restoration, The Great Gambler: A Picture of Our Time, and Inferno: Playing with Contemporary Man in this deluxe two-disc release.

Critic Reviews:

• " Lang's late-period masterpiece " – Fernando F. Croce

• " Lang's look at the modern world. " – Michael E. Grost

• " It's a fun film and a fitting swan song for the legendary filmmaker who made his mark in both Germany and America. " – Dennis Schwartz