Mabuse the Gambler and Inferno with Jonathan Zorn

Wednesday, October 22 and Thursday, October 23 at 7pm each night

A World held together by Anarchy and Chaos. A Society run by an Empire of Crime. The Inheritor of Moriarty and Fantomas, the Grandfather of Drs. No and Evil and Kaizer Soze. A master of disguise and telepathic hypnosis. A Man who aims to burn the world and rule its ashes. DR. MABUSE! A film so brazenly revealing of the hypnotic power of evil that Goebbels banned it and confiscated the prints. We await the coming of the Dawn of Darkness.

A character that Fritz Lang (M, Metropolis) came back to three times over the course of 40 years, Dr. Mabuse first appeared in this 1922 silent film. The evil puppeteer manipulating people to their will, creating a network of mayhem and chicanery through unwitting agents. This super-villain seizes on the weak and leverages their poverty and weak minds to build a society of malevolence that is often hard to see as different from present day politiccs…

The Bridge Fall Film Series continues with another seasonally-appropriate silent horror film, complete with an original score! Due to the length of the film, we’ll break this first part of the Mabuse cyle into it’s original two parts:

Mabuse the Gambler: An Image of the Time (Oct. 22)
Inferno: the People of the Time (Oct. 23)

Both evenings will feature an all-new film score, performed live by Charlottesville-based electronics/jazz musician Jonathan Zorn!

For more information about the film series posters, or to download a printable version, click here.