Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Part II: Inferno, a Play of People in Our Time

(Dr Mabuse der Spieler: (II) Inferno, ein Spiel von Menschen unserer Zeit)

Fritz Lang
Germany, 1922
  • Portrait of Bruce Loeb
    On Piano
    Bruce Loeb
featuring

Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede Nissen, Gertrude Weckler, Alfred Abel,

Part II of Lang’s epic thriller traces a web of stories and details Mabuse’s descent. Everyone (his victims, his lover, the state’s attorney who resolutely pursues him) has become, at some point, spectator of his terrifying will. Only at the end, when the system sustaining his authority is breached, will the mastermind become the spectator of his own nightmares.

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Fritz Lang
  • Thea von Harbou
Based On

  • the novel by Norbert Jacques

Cinematographer
  • Carl Hoffmann
Language
  • Silent
  • with German intertitles and English subtitles
Print Info
  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 114 mins
Source
  • Murnau-Stiftung