ZAGREB FILM FESTIVAL
14.-21.10.2012.
The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse / Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse
Fritz Lang, FRG, Italy, France, 1960.
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Script: Fritz Lang, Heinz Oskar Wuttig
Producer: Artur Brauner, Fritz Lang
Production company: CCC Filmkunst, C.E.I. Incom, Critérion Film S.A.
Cinematography: Karl Löb
Editing: Walter Wischniewsky, Waltraud Wischniewsky
Music: Bert Grund
Cast: Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck, Wolfgang Preiss, Gert Fröbe, Werner Peters, Howard Vernon, Reinhard Kolldehoff
Script: Fritz Lang, Heinz Oskar Wuttig
Producer: Artur Brauner, Fritz Lang
Production company: CCC Filmkunst, C.E.I. Incom, Critérion Film S.A.
Cinematography: Karl Löb
Editing: Walter Wischniewsky, Waltraud Wischniewsky
Music: Bert Grund
Cast: Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck, Wolfgang Preiss, Gert Fröbe, Werner Peters, Howard Vernon, Reinhard Kolldehoff
Format: video
Running time: 103'
Synopsis
In his very last film Fritz Lang brought back to life a character with whom he had had a huge success in the 1930s. With The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, Lang became the first film-maker to predict the power latent in surveillance. The film takes place for the most part in a hotel that Mabuse has fitted out with optical espionage units. He is not the only one spying on the residents of the hotel, the unsuspecting guests relentlessly monitor and observe each other: insurance agent Mistelzweig is snooping on everyone, millionaire Travors is keeping a protective eye on Marion, who in turn is sounding him out whilst the Commissar keeps an eye on her every move. Made shortly before the Wall went up, the film reflects the information mania of the Cold War and is an exaggerated depiction of the paranoid age of the Western and Eastern blocs – whilst quite incidentally leading to a new genre: Mabuse’s thirst for power represents a new quality of filmic crime that became, later on in European espionage films, a feature of characters such as Dr. No, Blofeld or Dr. Fu Manchu.
Awards and Festivals
Bambi Awards 1961 - 3rd place Best Actor (Peter van Eyck)
Directors Biography
Fritz Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. His most famous films are the groundbreaking Metropolis (the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release) and M, made before he moved to the United States, his iconic precursor to the film noir genre.
Running time: 103'
Synopsis
In his very last film Fritz Lang brought back to life a character with whom he had had a huge success in the 1930s. With The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, Lang became the first film-maker to predict the power latent in surveillance. The film takes place for the most part in a hotel that Mabuse has fitted out with optical espionage units. He is not the only one spying on the residents of the hotel, the unsuspecting guests relentlessly monitor and observe each other: insurance agent Mistelzweig is snooping on everyone, millionaire Travors is keeping a protective eye on Marion, who in turn is sounding him out whilst the Commissar keeps an eye on her every move. Made shortly before the Wall went up, the film reflects the information mania of the Cold War and is an exaggerated depiction of the paranoid age of the Western and Eastern blocs – whilst quite incidentally leading to a new genre: Mabuse’s thirst for power represents a new quality of filmic crime that became, later on in European espionage films, a feature of characters such as Dr. No, Blofeld or Dr. Fu Manchu.
Awards and Festivals
Bambi Awards 1961 - 3rd place Best Actor (Peter van Eyck)
Directors Biography
Fritz Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. His most famous films are the groundbreaking Metropolis (the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release) and M, made before he moved to the United States, his iconic precursor to the film noir genre.
Location and screening schedule: ZAGREB DANCE CENTRE, Monday, October 15th at 18.00
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