Bernhard Goetzke

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German actor (1884-1964), a stalwart of Fritz Lang's silent films. He played Death in Destiny (1921) and the relentless state prosecutor von Wenk in Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922). A stage veteran, he continued in German cinema into the 1950s.

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Crime, Thriller

Fritz Lang's two-part criminal epic introduced cinema's first great supervillain. Dr. Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) is a hypnotist, master of disguise, and criminal psychologist who manipulates Berlin's decadent gambling clubs, ruins the industrialist Hull, and destroys the young Count Told — all while state prosecutor von Wenk (Bernhard Goetzke) doggedly hunts the phantom pulling the strings. Adapted from Norbert Jacques's novel and subtitled *A Picture of the Time*, the film is both a cracking crime saga and a portrait of Weimar Germany's postwar instability. Mabuse's chilling final descent into madness made him an archetype Lang would revisit twice more. Published in 1922, it is in the public domain in the United States.

Crime · Thriller · Silent

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

1922 - as State Prosecutor von Wenk