Click here to copy URL

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

Das testament des dr. Mabuse

1933

Fritz Lang

Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Oskar Beregi, Theodor Loos, Karl Meixner ...

7.9

3,853

Thriller Berlin police inspector Lohmann investigates a case, in which all clues lead to a man, who's in a hospital for mental illnesses for since many years - Dr. Mabuse.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"The use of sound is strikingly brilliant (...) Lang was already telling us not to accept sound at face value, but as part of cinema’s arsenal of illusions."	POS
United States	Nora Sayre The New York Times	"It's rich in the images and the shocks at which Lang excelled (...) The director most brilliantly conveyed the sense of being trapped"	POS
United States	Noel Murray AV Club	"[It combines] style, exuberance, and thematic complexity (...) presenting nightmarish scenarios with clever sound design and ingenious rhyming compositions"	POS
United States	Variety	"[It's] rather slow-moving in places (...) [Baum] is played admirably by Beregi. Klein-Rogge, in the figure of Mabuse, is very suggestive."	NEU
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"The movie captures an air of dread, despair, and individual impotence—a political atmosphere that meshed perfectly with Lang's raging paranoia"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Radio Times	"This is still a dark tale, told with atmospheric panache (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tony Rayns Time Out	"Fritz Lang conceived Mabuse as a cypher for Weimar Germany's corruption and decadence"	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"Lang, watching violence ramp up from zero to chaos in an instant, choreographs it with precise, harrowing, razor-sharp, and cynical strokes."	POS

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.