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

Another clip from 'Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse', Germany, 1960, starring Gerd Frobe as Kommissar Krass, again at an 'important' meeting. Probably very important as the smoking becomes more vehement compared to the first clip.
Pay special attention to the shots of the non-smoking participants, interspersed with streams of smoke passing by from and in various directions.
Most spectacular are the shots with full room view in which small sudden explosions of smoke resemble those natural geysers which let off steam at regular intervals.
At some moments there is so much smoke that it looks as if the room is on fire.
I wonder whether the vast smoking in this film was actually part of the script or an automatism of actors just smoking during their work...

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Film & Animation

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• pipe
• smoking
• doktor
• Mabuse
• Gerd
• Fröbe

[FilmTraum9]

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.