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Auction History Result 6f037 TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE linen French 31x47 R38 Fritz Lang's psychotic criminal genius! Date Sold 10/5/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1938) Re-release Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked French Large Movie Poster (31x47; measures 30 3/4" x 47 3/4" [78 x 121 cm]) (Learn More) Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (released in the U.S. in 1943 as "The Last Will of Doctor Mabuse", and "The Testament of Doctor Mabuse"), the classic 1933 Fritz Lang German crime mad criminal genius detective thriller (a very complicated story of a criminal mastermind who runs a huge operation from his room in a mental hospital, and the detective trying to break up his crime syndicate; there are some who think that Lang intended his central character to be a parody of Hitler, and obviously, Hitler took offense at this parallel, because he had the movie banned!; the movie is a sequel of sorts to Lang's 5 hour silent movie "Dr. Mabuse", which is sometimes shown in two parts; some people consider this movie to be Lang's very best movie, amazing since he also did "Metropolis" and "M"!) starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge (in the title role as Dr. Mabuse), Oscar Beregi Sr., Thomy Bourdelle, Raymond Cordy, Gustav Diessl, Ginette Gaubert, Wera Liessem, Theodor Loos, Maurice Maillot, Karl Meixner, Daniel Mendaille, Camilla Spira, and Monique Rolland. This movie is unusual in that Fritz Lang shot two versions of the movie at the same time! In addition to the regular German language version, Lang made a second French language version. In that movie, Rudolf Klein-Rogge played Dr Mabuse as well as in the German version, but the rest of the cast was entirely different. This was done by many of the major studios in the very early 1930s, where they would have a second cast film a second version of the movie on the same sets (which saved a lot of money), but in all the other cases we know of, a second director was called in to shoot the second version. In this case, Lang directed both versions (although Rene Sti was the co-director of the French version). Note that, shortly before it was to be released, this film was banned in Germany by Joseph Goebbels (Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda) because it "showed that an extremely dedicated group of people are perfectly capable of overthrowing any state with violence". It finally had a German (West) release in 1951. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this poster is undated, and we have contacted several French poster experts, and they are unable to tell us exactly when it is from, but their best guess is that it is from a 1938 re-release. Also note that there is a slightly different French re-release poster with a similar image that may be from a slightly different re-release. Please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept the uncertainty as to when it is from. If anyone knows more about this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: good to very good. The poster had been folded an extra time, resulting in two extra vertical folds. There was tiny paper loss at the bottom center crossfold, with slight darkening and scuffs on parts of some foldlines. There was tiny paper loss in the edges of the top and bottom blank borders. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer linenbacked the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above, and they mounted the poster onto a thin linen backing with no excess around the edges. Learn More about condition grades 
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