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THE THOUSAND EYES OF DR. MABUSE
1960
Director
Fritz Lang
Starring
Dawn Addams
Peter van Eyck
Gert Fröbe
Runtime
103 minutes
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The legendary director Fritz Lang’s reputation was built in large part on the success of his early German films featuring the criminal mastermind known only as Dr. Mabuse. Near the end of his life, Lang returned to Germany and created a picture that, in closing the saga he began nearly forty years earlier, brought his career full-circle, and would come to represent his final celluloid testament—by extension: his final film masterpiece.
THE THOUSAND EYES OF DR. MABUSE finds that diabolical Weimar name resurfacing in the Cold War era, linked to a new methodology of murder and mayhem. Seances, assassinations, and Nazi-engineered surveillance tech—all abound in Lang’s paranoid, and ultimate, filmic labyrinth. One of the great and cherished “last films” in the history of cinema, THE THOUSAND EYES provides a stylistic glimpse into the 1960s works on such subjects as sex-crime, youth-culture, and LSD that Lang would unfortunately never come to realise. Nonetheless, Lang’s final film remains an explosive, and definitive, closing statement. It’s a breathless, complex and awesome piece of cinema meditating on the imbrication of cinematic looking and of unrestrained power.
THE THOUSAND EYES OF DR. MABUSE finds that diabolical Weimar name resurfacing in the Cold War era, linked to a new methodology of murder and mayhem. Seances, assassinations, and Nazi-engineered surveillance tech—all abound in Lang’s paranoid, and ultimate, filmic labyrinth. One of the great and cherished “last films” in the history of cinema, THE THOUSAND EYES provides a stylistic glimpse into the 1960s works on such subjects as sex-crime, youth-culture, and LSD that Lang would unfortunately never come to realise. Nonetheless, Lang’s final film remains an explosive, and definitive, closing statement. It’s a breathless, complex and awesome piece of cinema meditating on the imbrication of cinematic looking and of unrestrained power.