M (DVD, 2012)

Seymour Nebenzal

5060000403084

80071261

M

Matthis, Josef Almas, Else Ehser, Hermann Krehan, Edgar Pauly, Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur, Franz Polland, Carell, Rosa Valetti, Ernst Paul Hempel, Theo Lingen, Oscar Hocker, Robert Hartberg, Leeser, Gustaf Grndgens, J.A. Eckhoff, Karl Platen, Nied, Gelingk, Hans Ritter, Peter Lorre, Rebane, Goldstein, Albert Karchow, Inge Landgut, Max Sablotski, Ernst Wulf, Gelin Wannemann, Otto Waldis, Swinborne, Rolf Wanka, Theodor Loos, Sigurd Lohde, Ellen Widmann, Klaus Pohl, Isenta, Rhaden, Hertha Von Walther, Friedrich Gnass, Borwin Walth, Hadrian M. Netto, Karl Heinz Stroux, Josef Damen, Carl Balthaus, Paul Mederow, Trude Moss, Anna Goltz, Ilse Furstenberg, Paul Kemp, Kurth, Rudolf Blumner, Reihsig, Werner Kepich, Paul Rehkopf, Gunther Neumann, Leonard Steckel, Albert Hoermann, Georg John, Alexander Sascha, Heinrich Gretler, Agnes Schulz-Lichterfeld, Wolf Trutz, Karl Elzer, Alfred Loretto, Otto Wernicke, Maja Norden, Fritz Odemar, Rosa Lichenstein, Bruno Zeiner, Hugo Doblin, Margarete Melzer, Gerhard Bienert, Mascheck, Gunther Hadank, Erwin Faber, Lotte Lobinger, Hans Behal, Heinrich Gotho

Fritz Lang

English

DVD

German

2012

2 Audio Commentaries\'zum Beispiel Lang': 1968 Documentary\48-Page Booklet, Black & White, With Subtitles

110 Mins

Drama, General

PG

2

Germany

Fritz Arno Wagner, Gustav Rathje

Karl Vollbrecht, Emil Hasler

In Fritz Lang's startling and exquisite film M, fear stalks the streets of Berlin in the form of a serial child murderer whose grisly accomplishments are so heinous even the criminal minds of the underworld want him dead. Filmed in post-Weimar Germany during the infancy of the Nazi state, this tale of moral depravity serves not just as an allegory for the need of justice for all, but as an ominous foreshadowing of the sort of societal hysteria that leads to cultural witch hunts. Originally titled 'Morder Unter Uns' ('Murder Among Us'), M was one of Peter Lorre's (CASABLANCA) first major film roles. Lang's expressionistic eye plunges into the dark cityscape of Berlin, as he follows the killer whistling down the street, seducing small children with toys and candy, and eventually fleeing for his life. A city paralysed by fear, and a vast criminal underground network of blind beggars, thieves and murderers, as well as an unforgettable climax notable for its startling statement about the murderous nature which resides within human beings, are all rendered in Lang's painterly cinematography of sharp angles, dark corners and breakneck pacing.

M

Edvard Grieg

Dolby Digital

Thea von Harbou, Paul Falkenberg, Adolf Jansen, Fritz Lang, Karl Vash

Paul Falkenberg