1990 titled Dr. M. The 2008 film The Dark Knight features a version of The Joker inspired by Mabuse. Throughout the film, the character recites monologues promoting chaos & disorder which borrow heavily from Mabuse's own in 1933's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse. Director Christopher Nolan has stated: "I think I made Jonah (Nolan's brother) watch Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse prior to writing the Joker". Home media A Region 1 DVD of The Testament of Dr. Mabuse was released by The Criterion Collection on May 18, 2004. This DVD release consists of two discs and contains both the German-language and French-language versions of the film. Film critic Dave Kehr wrote the German print is "the definite version". The German print of the film on the DVD is missing small parts of the film and runs at 121 minutes. A Region 2 DVD of the film was released by Eureka! in a box set titled The Complete Fritz Lang Mabuse Box Set. This set included the two other Mabuse films directed by Lang, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler and The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse. References Version notes Citations Bibliography External links (German-language version) (French-language version) The Testament of Dr. Mabuse an essay by Tom Gunning at the Criterion Collection 1933 films Dr. Mabuse films 1930s French-language films 1930s German-language films German multilingual films Films about books Films directed by Fritz Lang Films about hypnosis Films of the Weimar Republic Films of Nazi Germany Films set in Berlin Films set in Germany German black-and-white films German Expressionist films German sequel films Police detective films Films with screenplays by Thea von Harbou Films with screenplays by Fritz Lang Films produced by Seymour Nebenzal 1933 multilingual films 1930s German films