Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse (1960)

Description

After enjoying fantastic success with Fritz Lang's two-part "Indian Epic" in 1959, the German producer Artur Brauner signed the great director to direct one more film. The result would be the picture that, in closing the saga he began nearly forty years earlier, brought Lang's career full-circle, and would come to represent his final celluloid testament - by extension: his final film 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 to a new methodology of murder and mayhem. Séances, 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, Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse provides a stylistic glimpse into the 1960s works on such subjects as sex-crime, youth-culture, and LSD that Lang would unfortunately would never come to realise. Nevertheless, Lang's final film remains an explosive, and definitive, closing statement. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the fully-restored version for the first time in the UK.