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With the etching onto glass of a single word – Mabuse – Berlin reawakens into a nightmare. Fritz Lang's electrifying Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse The is the astonishing second instalment in the German master's legendary Mabuse series a film that puts image and sound into an hypnotic arrangement unlike anything seen or heard in the cinema before – or since.It's been eleven years since the downfall of arch-criminal and master-of-disguise Dr. Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) now sequestered in an asylum under the watchful eye of one Professor Baum (Oskar Beregi). Mabuse exists in a state of catatonic graphomania his only action the irrepressible scribbling of blueprints that would realise a seemingly theoretical Empire of Crime. But when a series of violent events courses through the city police and populace alike start asking themselves with increasing panic: Who is behind all this?! The answer borders on the realm of the impossible…
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