M – EINE STADT SUCHT EINEN MÖRDER

R: Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang's first sound film is partly based on actual events at the time - a series of child murders - but does not use the subject to create suspense but to portray social conditions with bitter irony. Mass hysteria takes up a lot of space. The efficient organisation of the underworld and its success in tracking down the murderer illustrate the incompetence of the police. The grim humour makes M a surprisingly funny film, the implications of which were well understood - even by the Nazis, who protested against the original title "Murderers Among Us".

Deutschland 1931; Regie: Fritz Lang; Buch: Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang; Kamera: Fritz A. Wagner; Musik: Adolf Jansen; Darsteller:innen: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widman, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Gustaf Gründgens, Theo Lingen u.a.; (DCP – von 35mm übertragen; 1:1,37; Schwarzweiß; Mono; 100min; deutsche ORIGINALFASSUNG MIT ENGLISCHEN UNTERTITELN).