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THE COMPLETE FRITZ LANG MABUSE BOX SET
complete 4-disc boxset
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Fritz-Lang-Mabuse-Box/dp/B002MPTIYA/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/nov/15/complete-fritz-lang-philip-french
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=71727
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews47/complete_fritz_lang_mabuse_boxset.htm
http://www.dvdoutsider.co.uk/dvd/reviews/m/mabuse_box_set.html
DVD Release Date: October 19, 2009
Studio: Eureka Entertainment Ltd.
Masters of Cinema Series # 89, 90, 91
ABOUT THE BOXSET:
Fritz Lang's MABUSE films are among the great movie series of all time, and the complete trilogy is featured here in this collection. Included are both parts of Lang's epic 5-hour masterpiece DR. MABUSE: THE GAMBLER. The director/screenwriter deftly evokes the soiled and shoddy world of crime-infested and inflation-racked post World War I Berlin in the first installment. The dark and mystical adventure of the criminal mastermind careens towards its stylised climax in the second installment.
The tenuous and terrified atmosphere of Germany on the eve of Nazi ascendancy is cleverly evoked in Lang's sequel to the 1922 film, THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (1933). As all of the characters speed chaotically towards the film's dark climax, the idea of a madman controlling a mass of hypnotised people and causing them to commit crimes that he premeditates creates a mystical and simultaneously potent political allegory of Lang's time.
THE THOUSAND EYES OF DR.MABUSE (1960) is not so much a sequel as an extension of Lang's early Mabuse films. Set in 1960, the film begins with a series of unsolved murders in a Berlin hotel.
CONTENTS:
3 feature films:
Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit (Fritz Lang; 1922, 270 min.)
http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/dr-mabuse-der-spieler/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013086/
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang; 1933, 116 min.)
http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/das-testament-des-dr-mabuse/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023563/
Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang; 1960, 99 min.)
http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/die-1000-augen-des-dr-mabuse/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054371/
Format: PAL
DVD Size: 6.84 + 7.04 + 6.49 + 6.13 GB - Exact Untouched Copy
Time (total): 485 minutes
Type: Black and White
Aspect Ratio: 1.32:1 (Gambler) | 1.19:1 (Testament) | 1.69:1 anamorphic (1000 Eyes)
Sound (main features): German | English (Die 1000 Augen)
Subtitles: optional English
SET DETAILS
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DISC ONE + TWO
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DR. MABUSE, DER SPIELER
http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/dr-mabuse-der-spieler/
1922, 270 min.
# New, officially licenced transfer from restored materials.
# New and improved optional English subtitles with original intertitles.
# Newly recorded feature-length audio commentary by film-scholar and Lang expert David Kalat.
# Three video pieces: an interview with the composer of the restoration score, a discussion of Norbert Jacques, creator of Dr. Mabuse, and an examination of the film's motifs in the context of German silent cinema.
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DISC THREE
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DAS TESTAMENT DES DR. MABUSE
http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/das-testament-des-dr-mabuse/
1933, 116 min.
# New, officially licenced high-definition transfer from restored materials.
# New and improved optional English subtitles with original soundtrack.
# Newly recorded feature-length audio commentary by film-scholar and Lang expert David Kalat.
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DISC FOUR
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DIE 1000 AUGEN DES DR. MABUSE
http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/die-1000-augen-des-dr-mabuse/
1950, 99 min.
The picture that brought Lang's career full-circle, and would come to represent his final masterpiece. Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse [The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse] finds that diabolical Weimar name resurfacing in the Cold War era, linked now to the actions of a criminal gang whose methodology resembles that of the same villainous mastermind who gripped Berlin with his menace in the years preceding Hitler. Seances, assassinations, and Nazi-engineered surveillance-tech -- all abound in Lang's paranoid, and ultimate, filmic labyrinth.
# New, officially licenced anamorphic transfer from restored materials.
# New and improved optional English subtitles with original soundtrack.
# Newly recorded feature-length audio commentary by film-scholar and Lang expert David Kalat.
# 2002 video interview with actor Wolfgang Preiss.
# An alternate ending taken from the French print of the film.
# Optional English-language dub track, approved by Fritz Lang.
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