British distributors Eureka Entertainment have officially announced and detailed their upcoming release of Fritz Lang's
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933). The film will be available in a standard
Dual Format and limited
SteelBook editions. Street date is September 24th.
Special Features:
- HD transfer of the film presented in its original aspect ratio, in 1080p on the Blu-ray
- Optional English-language subtitles
- Feature-length audio commentary by film scholar and Fritz Lang expert David Kalat
- Lavish booklet featuring the words of Fritz Lang, rare archival imagery, and more
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 Testament of Dr. Mabuse] 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…