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
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
German Empire
Best movies:
Metropolis (1927)
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Alfred Abel
German Empire
Best movies:
Metropolis (1927)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
The Burning Soil (1922)
Bernhard Goetzke
German Empire
Best movies:
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)
Destiny (1921)
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
Paul Richter
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Mysteries of India, Part II: Above All Law (1921)
Hans Adalbert Schlettow
German Empire
Best movies:
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)
A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
Georg John
German Empire
Best movies:
Jealousy (1925)
Metropolis (1927)
M (1931)
Károly Huszár
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Destiny (1921)
The Blue Angel (1930)
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
Grete Berger
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Metropolis (1927)
Destiny (1921)
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
Lydia Potěchina
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Destiny (1921)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Hans Junkermann
German Empire
Best movies:
The Oyster Princess (1919)
The Young Count (1935)
Hamlet (1921)
Gustav Botz
German Empire
Best movies:
Nosferatu (1922)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
The Burning Soil (1922)
Lil Dagover
Best movies:
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Destiny (1921)
The Stars Shine (1938)
Gottfried Huppertz
German Empire
Best movies:
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Paul Biensfeldt
Germany
Best movies:
Destiny (1921)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Madame DuBarry (1919)
Gertrude Welcker
German Empire
Best movies:
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Algol. Tragedy of Power (1920)
Anita Berber
German Empire
Best movies:
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Eerie Tales (1919)
Adolf Klein
Austrian Empire
Best movies:
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
The Burning Soil (1922)
Phantom (1922)
Willy Schmidt-Gentner
German Empire
Best movies:
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Julius Falkenstein
German Empire
Best movies:
Fair People (1930)
The Oyster Princess (1919)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Adele Sandrock
Netherlands
Best movies:
Flitterwochen (1936)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
The Congress Dances (1931)