M Criterion (1931)

19311h 51mdir. Fritz LangGermanGermany, Weimar Republicthriller filmfilm noir

Note: this print runs 111 minutes against a recorded 117 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Gustaf Gründgens, Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos, Inge Landgut, Ellen Widmann, Friedrich Gnaß, Fritz Odemar

Directed by Fritz Lang

M is a 1931 German mystery thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert, a serial killer who targets children, in his third screen role. Both Lang's first sound film and an early example of a procedural drama, M centres on the efforts of both a city's police force and its criminal syndicates to apprehend a serial child-murderer.

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