Das Testament Des Dr. Mabuse (Blu-ray & DVD Steelbook)

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Stuart McLean

Certificate: 12
Running Time: 1 hour and 56 mins
Retail Price: £17.99
Release Date: 24/09/2012
Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
With the etching onto glass of a single word - "MABUSE" - Berlin reawakens into a nightmare. Fritz Lang's electrifying Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (The Testament of Dr. Mabuse) is the astonishing second instalment in the German master's legendary Mabuse series, a film that puts image and sound into an hypnotic arrangement unlike anything seen or heard in the cinema before - or since.

It's been eleven years since the downfall of arch-criminal and master-of-disguise Dr. Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge), now sequestered in an asylum under the watchful eye of one Professor Baum (Oskar Beregi). Mabuse exists in a state of "catatonic graphomania", his only action the irrepressible scribbling of blueprints that would realise a seemingly theoretical "Empire of Crime". But when a series of violent events courses through the city, police and populace alike start asking themselves with increasing panic: "Who is behind all this?!" The answer borders on the realm of the impossible...

Special Features:
Feature-length audio commentary by film scholar and Fritz Lang expert David Kalat
Lavish booklet featuring the words of Fritz Lang, rare archival imagery, and more