M
Who is the murderer?
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 9, 2015
- Originally Released: 1931
- Label: Reel Vault
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Peter Lorre | |
Performer: | Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos, Georg John, Rosa Valetti, Heinrich Gretler, Sigurd Lohde, Klaus Pohl & Otto Waldis | |
Directed by | Fritz Lang | |
Edited by | Paul Falkenberg | |
Screenwriting by | Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou, Paul Falkenberg, Adolf Jansen & Karl Vash | |
Composition by | Edvard Grieg | |
Produced by | Seymour Nebenzal | |
Director of Photography: | Fritz Arno Wagner & Gustav Rathje |
Entertainment Reviews:
Few films are gripping and effective 82 years after their original release, but this one surely is.
Los Angeles Times
Our identification with [Lorre] as a psychopath is so complete it's hard to believe that while appearing before Fritz Lang's cameras in the daytime, he was, at night, acting as a comedian in a farce.
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New Yorker
...M is a dazzling film that, seven decades on, remains as innovative as it is unsettling...
Total Film
Rating: 5/5 --
You'll never look at a novelty balloon in the same way again.
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Little White Lies
The film itself remains as potent as ever. What's really striking is the eerie pathos of Peter Lorre's performance.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 5/5 --
Lang's razor-sharp dissection of crime and punishment never puts a foot wrong.
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Observer (UK)
Rating: 4/4 --
Lang's movie is that rare thing, a nail-biting soul-searcher. While M steers clear of analyzing deviance, it is startling in its musings on which punishment fits an inhuman crime.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Product Description:
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" ("Murderers Among Us"), M was one of Peter Lorre's (CASABLANCA) first major film roles. Fritz 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 paralyzed 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.
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- Sales Rank: 36,902
- UPC: 644827200924
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