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During the 1920s, Germany was one of the most important and innovative filmmaking countries in the world. In the few years before Hitler and Ministry of Propaganda head Joseph Goebbels destroyed German film culture in 1933, many of the country's creatives produced their most daring work. These progressive films, all made between 1930 and 1933, flew in the face of Nazi ideology.
On this night, we will be watching Fritz Lang's 1933 film "The Testament of Dr. Mabuse" starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, and Camilla Spira.
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor’s preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse’s notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor’s whereabouts, and capture him for good.
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