Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse = Testament of Dr. Mabuse ; ein Fritz Lang Film / a Janus Films presentation ; Nero Films ; screenplay, Thea von Harbou ; produced and directed by Fritz Lang.

Format:

• Video

Contributor:

• Lang, Fritz, 1890-1976, director, producer.
• Harbou, Thea von, 1888-1954, screenwriter.
• Klein-Rogge, Rudolf, actor.
• Diessl, Gustav, 1899-1948, actor.
• Wernicke, Otto, 1893-1965, actor.
• Beregi, Oscar, actor.
• Liessem, Wera, 1913-1991, actor.
• Erdmann, Hans, 1882-1942, composer.
• Nero Film Classics, producer.
• Home Vision (Firm), distributor.
• Public Media Incorporated (Wilmette, Ill.), distributor.
• Janus Films, distributor.

Language:

• English
• German

Subjects (All):

• Doctor Mabuse films.
• Criminals--Germany--Drama.
• Hypnotism and crime--Drama.
• Motion pictures, German.
• History.
• Hypnotism and crime.
• Criminals.
• Germany--History--1918-1933--Drama.
• Germany.

Genre:

• Feature films.
• Horror films.
• Drama.
• Video recordings.

Physical Description:

• 1 videocassette (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
• 1/2 in.
• monochrome

Other Title:

• Testament des Doktor Mabuse
• Testament of Dr. Mabuse
• Testament of Doctor Mabuse

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Home Vision Cinema ; Wilmette, Ill. : Public Media Inc. ; [New York, NY] : Janus Films, [1994?]

Language Note:

German with English subtitles.

System Details:

• VHS.
• analog
• magnetic
• mono
• VHS

Summary:

In Lang's sequel to the 1922 silent film, Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler, the villainous inmate of an insane asylum plots to crush society in a wave of theft and violence. The madman, who spouts actual Nazi slogans, hypnotizes the asylum's director to carry out the fiendish plan after his death.

Participant:

Rudolf Klein-Rogge (Dr. Mabuse), Gustav Diessl (Kent), Otto Wernicke (Lohmann), Oskar Beregi (Professor Baum), Wera Liessem (Lilli).

Credits:

Photography, Fritz Arno Wagner; music, Hans Erdmann.

Notes:

• Videocassette release of 1933 motion picture filmed in both German and French versions (Le testament du docteur Mabuse, co-director, René Sti). It is also known as The last will of Dr. Mabuse and in 1953 was shortened and dubbed and released under the title The crimes of Dr. Mabuse.
• Based on the characters from the novel by Norbert Jacques.

ISBN:

0780014634 :

OCLC:

31470493

Publisher Number:

• 037429073933
• TES 020 Public Media Home Vision