Chinese Version
M (Germany)
M is the murderer
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Peter Lorre Ellen Widmann Inge Landgut
Footage: 105min
Year: 1931
Fritz Lang's first talkie crime film.
The police are anxious to capture an elusive child murderer and begin rounding up every criminal in town. The Underworld leaders decide to take the heat off their activities by catching the child killer themselves. Once the killer is fingered, he is marked with the letter "M" chalked on his back. He is tracked down and captured by the combined forces of the Berlin criminal community, who put him on trial for his life in a kangaroo court. The police close in and rescue the killer from the Underworld, so that he can stand trial again in "respectable" circumstances.
The killer may be sick, but the society pursuing him isn't that much better.
References:
M (ROGER EBERT)
M (Murderer Among Us) a film by Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang's M - editing sound as visuals
A textbook classic restored to perfection
‘M': Fritz Lang's Dark Masterpiece, Still Shocking After All These Years
Fritz Lang: The Illusion of Mastery
Works of the same director:
|
Personal rate |
|
|
