Robert Forster-Larrinaga

Harlander, a media mogul and war profiteer, has been told that he has six months before his sanity will leave him completely. He hires a young nurse, and decides to spend all his money before his six months are up.

Doctor Mabuse is a criminal mastermind, doctor of psychology, and master of disguise, armed with the powers of hypnosis and mind control, who oversees the counterfeiting and gambling rackets of the Berlin underworld. He visits gambling dens by night under various guises and aliases, using the power of suggestion to win at cards and finance his plans.

As the police intensify their bemusing search on Doctor Mabuse's notorious band of gangsters, the deceptive, elusive hypnotist Mabuse simultaneously begins to close in on himself.

Harry Yquem achète des bijoux à sa femme bien-aimée dans un endroit où les intermédiaires de la pègre trafiquent des produits contrefaits et volés. Par hasard, il découvre un homme avec lequel sa femme a eu une liaison dans le passé.

Dans les temps troublés de la république de Weimar, le mystérieux docteur Mabuse use de ses pouvoirs psychiques pour perpétrer des crimes audacieux dans le plus grand anonymat. Sur les traces de ce génie du mal, le procureur Von Wenck se lie d'amitié avec Gerhard Hull, jeune industriel fortuné. Ce dernier, qui a été la victime d'une étonnante arnaque au jeu, va l'introduire dans le milieu interlope du Berlin nocturne.

Rival window cleaners Willy I and Willy 2 befriend Jou-Jou, an aspiring dancer, who has been tricked out of money by a con-man posing as an American movie mogul, and together they turn an old railway carriage into a "Villa Hollywood" for her.