Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse

A sensationalist reporter falls victim to an assassination carried out with a lethal steel needle. The trail leads to Berlin’s Hotel Luxor—a building constructed during the Nazi era. Behind its innocuous-looking façade lies an extensive web of blackmail, espionage—and murder… This new iteration of Mabuse is not merely a throwback to the past, but a clever modernization: the brilliant supervillain of the Weimar era is transformed into a manifestation of contemporary surveillance technology, from which nothing remains hidden. Enno Patalas observes: "The 'Thousand Eyes' also reveal both the brilliance and the catastrophe of a construct. They represent the staging of a staging—a process that, at a certain point—the system’s 'blind spot'—collapses back upon itself and negates its own existence." (Florian Widegger)