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Le docteur Mabuse est un personnage littéraire créé par l'écrivain luxembourgeois d'expression allemande Norbert Jacques (1880-1954). Psychologue, hypnotiseur, criminel se dissimulant sous de multiples masques et personnalités, il est un des avatars des personnages de « génies du mal » présents dans la littérature populaire de l'époque, comme le docteur Fu Manchu créé par le Britannique Sax Rohmer, ou Fantômas créé par les Français Pierre Souvestre et Marcel Allain. Il faut probablement voir dans le succès du personnage non seulement le reflet d'une mode littéraire mais également l'expression d'une critique envers un monde en mutation, aussi bien d'un point de vue économique que des sciences humaines.
Mais ce sont surtout les trois adaptations cinématographiques qu'en fit Fritz Lang (cf. ci-dessous) qui rendirent le personnage célèbre, et le fixèrent dans l'imaginaire collectif, d'abord allemand puis international, au point d'apparaître dans une dizaine de films jusque dans les années 1970. Par ses côtés critiques et esthétiques expressionnistes, et leurs impacts sur l'histoire du cinéma, la démarche de Fritz Lang et de son épouse et scénariste Thea von Harbou dans Docteur Mabuse le joueur (1922) est à rapprocher du Cabinet du docteur Caligari de Robert Wiene (1920).
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Dr. M (1990)
, 1h57Directed by Claude Chabrol
Origin German
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films about suicide, Films set in the future, Films about viral outbreaks, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas, Hanns Zischler, Benoît Régent, William Berger
Rating48%
In the near future, a deadly epidemic is infecting people throughout West Berlin, leading to people taking their own lives to avoid catching it. All the media reports seem like unusual propaganda. No one knows what to do or how to help, except for one police officer who suspects that the suicides are really caused by a lone madman. His investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis.
The Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961)
, 1h29Directed by Harald Reinl
Origin German
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Crime
Actors Gert Fröbe, Lex Barker, Daliah Lavi, Wolfgang Preiss, Werner Peters, Fausto Tozzi
Rating59%
Inspector Lohmann's eagerly awaited fishing holiday is put on hold when he is called to investigate the murder of a man found in a railway tunnel. He was an Interpol courier carrying proof of the Chicago Syndicate's planned cooperation with a European criminal organisation that was in an attache case chained to, but now missing from his body. The Inspector gets word from Washington D.C. that a female representative of the Syndicate, Mrs. Pizarro is currently in Europe to meet up with the European criminals, and that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is sending Special Agent Joe Como to liaise with the German authorities. Lohmann visits a prison to have a meeting with one of the prisoners, Alberto Sandro, who was a member of the European criminal organisation in an unsuccessful bid to learn more about the upcoming events.
, 1h45Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin German
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Dawn Addams, Wolfgang Preiss, Peter van Eyck, Gert Fröbe, Nico Pepe, Werner Peters
Rating68%
A reporter is killed in his car on his way to work. Inspector Kras gets a call from his informant Peter Cornelius, a blind fortune-teller, who had a vision of the crime but not the perpetrator. Meanwhile, Henry Travers, a rich American industrialist, checks into the Luxor Hotel, which has been outfitted by the Nazis during World War II to spy on people in every room. He becomes involved with Marian Menil who is being threatened by her evil clubfooted husband. Hieronymus B. Mistelzweig, purportedly a salesman, who is also a guest in the hotel always seems to be lurking about. These disparate characters eventually get together to solve what appears to be the re-emergence of the long-dead Dr.
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
, 4h57Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin German
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gertrude Welcker, Aud Egede-Nissen, Alfred Abel, Bernhard Goetzke, Anita Berber
Rating77%
Part I — The Great Gambler: A Picture of the Time (Part I - Der große Spieler: Ein Bild der Zeit)