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Includes both parts of Fritz Lang's Masterpiece! PART 1: Fritz Lang deftly evokes the soiled and shoddy world of crime-infested and inflation-racked post World War I Berlin in the first episode of his masterpiece, DR. MABUSE THE GAMBLER, PART I. Using special effects, extremely complex editing, fade outs, animation techniques .. Read more

Starring	Rudolph Klein-Rogge, Lil Dagover
Director	Fritz Lang
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

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- A real wallow in German post-war depression and melodrama, in the form of a Fu Manchu/Moriarty type thriller. Fascinating scene by scene, but by now a slightly tiresome whole.
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- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:43
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  An Interesting & Occasionally Fascinating Epic
  
  Fritz Lang's epic story of 'Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler' is always interesting, and at times fascinating. Lang obviously enjoyed filming this kind of ... read more »
  
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  - 30 Sep 2004 at 09:13
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  Astounding but overlong
  
  Original, influential early films often suffer in comparison with the films that they form the basis for this is another groundbreaking output from Fritz Lang. ... read more »
  
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- - JCPHankins
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  - 23 Jan 2011 at 12:39
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  Dr Mabuse
  
  Didn't hold any interest as expected. Some you win...
  
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  - Brighton
  - 20 Feb 2009 at 18:37
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  dr mabuse - the gambler
  
  1922 film, silent movie. .
  
  Considering you only get German captions accompanying the film (these are then translated into English) it all seems as ... read more »
  
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- - andrew steele
  - chester u.k
  - 13 Feb 2009 at 10:34
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  Ein Weltbild
  
  Dr.Mabuse is cultural history. As a cinematic experience it is more like visual archeology. First shown in 1922, this film plunges you back over 80 years.read more »
  
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  - Carlisle, England
  - 20 Dec 2008 at 23:15
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  unwatchable
  
  Not only is this film painful and incomprehensible, it is long, long, long.
  
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  - Bristol, England
  - 07 Jul 2007 at 08:39
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  Lengthy classic of the silent era
  
  In 'Doctor Mabuse, the Gambler' (1922), Fritz Lang introduces a cinema villain who would form the basic blueprint for decades to come, a man with a ... read more »
  
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  - Hackney Henge
  - 28 Jul 2006 at 07:34
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  Fabulous!
  
  Wonderful, dark tale, superficially about the obsessive nature of gambling but in truth a much deeper meditation on human weakness and existence.
  
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  - Petworth, England
  - 16 May 2006 at 13:33
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  Another Doctor with many faces
  
  As often with Lang, a long slow film which gradually pulls you into a dark depraved world. So long in fact, that it was divided into two, but I am going to ... read more »
  
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- - barbi
  - 150 reviews
  - Salisbury
  - 30 Dec 2005 at 18:10
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  Classic Weimar shocket
  
  Real insight into postwar germany with stockmarket speculation, drugs (opening line is 'you are taking cocaine again despite my orders!'. Brilliant ... read more »
  
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  - Oxford, England
  - 17 Sep 2005 at 22:56
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  don't bother
  
  I wouldn't bother. I got past the sub titles and switched off, not worthy of watching I'm afraid. The story looked interesting but not my kind of film... read more »
  
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  - 01 Jul 2005 at 08:48
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  An Interesting & Occasionally Fascinating Epic
  
  Fritz Lang's epic story of 'Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler' is always interesting, and at times fascinating. Lang obviously enjoyed filming this kind of ... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 30 Sep 2004 at 09:13
- - 5
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  Incredible.
  
  Doctor Mabuse is an incredible film, it is an early example of a film noir/gangster film. For any silent movie fans or Lang fans this is a must see film.
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- - FWJacko
  - Cardiff
  - 28 Oct 2004 at 01:26
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  Complex, absorbing and very much to the point
  
  This is as fine a silent movie as I have seen and it comes with good piano accompaniment. The two films that make up this single Dr Mabuse story together last ... read more »
  
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  - 06 Apr 2005 at 10:24
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  A must see for any fans of cat and mouse thrillers
  
  Its just amazing how good this film is, it starts with a murder to perpertrate a shares fraud before showing Dr Mabuse's hypnosis talents as he defrauds the... read more »
  
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- - Saty
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  - 21 Mar 2005 at 11:29
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  Wow
  
  A must see film. This movie is rooted in the Germany of the 1920's. The excesses of a lost generation trying to recover from the damage and humiliation of ... read more »
  
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- - Zamy
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  - 25 Apr 2005 at 10:04
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  unwatchable
  
  Not only is this film painful and incomprehensible, it is long, long, long.
  
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  - Bristol, England
  - 07 Jul 2007 at 08:39
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  A lot slower...
  
  The second part of Dr Mabuse is a lot slower than the first and the firt half hour of the is very slow and not that much happens.
  
  But after that the ... read more »
  
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- - FWJacko
  - Cardiff
  - 29 Oct 2004 at 10:15
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  Classic Weimar shocket
  
  Real insight into postwar germany with stockmarket speculation, drugs (opening line is 'you are taking cocaine again despite my orders!'. Brilliant ... read more »
  
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  - Oxford, England
  - 17 Sep 2005 at 22:56
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  Another Doctor with many faces
  
  As often with Lang, a long slow film which gradually pulls you into a dark depraved world. So long in fact, that it was divided into two, but I am going to ... read more »
  
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- - barbi
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  - Salisbury
  - 30 Dec 2005 at 18:10
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  Fabulous!
  
  Wonderful, dark tale, superficially about the obsessive nature of gambling but in truth a much deeper meditation on human weakness and existence.
  
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- 244827
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  - Petworth, England
  - 16 May 2006 at 13:33

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Critics' reviews
- A real wallow in German post-war depression and melodrama, in the form of a Fu Manchu/Moriarty type thriller. Fascinating scene by scene, but by now a slightly tiresome whole.
- 33443
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:43
- Lang's introduction to Mabuse is typical of his early work in being disorganised and erratically paced as a narrative,... read more on Time Out
- 46707
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:17

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- Doctor Mabuse - The Gambler
  
  Includes both parts of Fritz Lang's Masterpiece! PART 1: Fritz Lang deftly evokes the soiled and shoddy world of crime-infested and inflation-racked post World War I Berlin in the first episode of his masterpiece, DR. MABUSE THE GAMBLER, PART I. Using special effects, extremely complex editing, ...