Smoking & Pipe smoking on film: Doktor Mabuse (2/2)

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I agree completely with Fledrmaus!

[Fledrmaus]

Lang always kept total control over his movies, so if those actors were smoking, it's because he TOLD them to smoke. Excessive tobacco smoke is an effect he liked and used in other movies - I think it gives an impression of mystery, obscurity and things hiding in a fog.