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Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler
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Lang and Thea von Harbou, Decla-Bioscop, 1922, released in two parts. Rudolf Klein-Rogge is Mabuse: gambler, analyst, forger, a man who treats the inflation economy as a stage. He hypnotizes, shorts the market, and changes faces faster than the detective can write them down. Two parts is the point. Weimar is not the backdrop. It is the method.
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Expressionism without a painted set: the distortion is in the economy. Four and a half hours, and the shot of Mabuse's face floating over the emptied trading floor is the thesis in one frame.
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