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Why this pick
Lang’s earlier sound thriller shares Mabuse’s stark urban unease, investigative momentum, and fascination with criminal networks operating beneath an anxious society.
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MOVIE1933 2h 2m DEU
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In a noisy print shop, a disgraced police detective named Hofmeister (Karl Meixner) escapes from pursuing criminals' attacks. Hofmeister telephones his former superior Inspector Karl Lohmann (Otto Wernicke) and explains frantically that he has discovered a huge criminal conspiracy. Before he can disclose the identity of the responsible criminal, the lights go out, shots are fired, and Hofmeister becomes mad. Hofmeister vanishes only to be found later singing every time he feels watched, and he is institutionalized at Professor Baum's asylum.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Klaus Pohl
Otto Wernicke
Inspector Karl Lohmann
Theo Lingen
Karetzky
Camilla Spira
Juwelen-Anna