TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE

Original 1980s re-release French 46 inch x 62 inch Poster for the 1933 Fritz Lang Crime Detective Thriller THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (DAS TESTAMENT DES DR. MABUSE), scenario by Thea von Harbou and starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Oscar Beregi Sr., Thomy Bourdelle, Raymond Cordy, Gustav Diessl, Ginette Gaubert, Wera Liessem, Theodor Loos, Maurice Maillot, Karl Meixner, Daniel Mendaille and Camilla Spira.

Locked away in an asylum for a decade and teetering between life and death, the criminal mastermind Doctor Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) has scribbled his last will and testament: a manifesto establishing a future empire of crime. When the document’s nefarious writings start leading to terrifying parallels in reality, it’s up to Berlin’s star detective, Inspector Lohmann (Otto Wernicke, reprising his role from M) to connect the most fragmented, maddening clues in a case unlike any other. Lang put slogans and ideas expounded by the Nazis into the mouth of a madman, warning his audience of an imminent menace, which was soon to become a reality. Nazi Minister of Information Joseph Goebbels saw the film as an instruction manual for terrorist action against the government and banned it for “endangering public order and security.”

The poster is in fine folded condition.