New York State Writers Institute - Classic Film Series

DR. MABUSE: THE GAMBLER March 31, 2000 (Friday) at 7:30 p.m. Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue (Free and Open to the Public) (German, 1922, 100 minutes, b&w, silent, 16mm) With live piano accompaniment by Mike Schiffer Directed by Fritz Lang Starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede Nissen, Gertrude Welcker

Dr. Mabuse, a sinister mesmerist/psychiatrist, toys with the weaknesses of the rich and influential and devises a devilishly ingenious blackmail scheme. Called "the grand-daddy of all criminal mastermind films," DR. MABUSE provides a near-documentary peek at the sort of perverse delights available to the underworld of Germany in 1922.