In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
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Peter Lorre | Hans Beckert |
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Ellen Widmann | Frau Beckmann |
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Inge Landgut | Elsie Beckmann |
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Otto Wernicke | Inspector Karl Lohmann |
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Theodor Loos | Inspector Groeber |
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Gustaf Gründgens | Schränker |
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Friedrich Gnaß | Franz |
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Fritz Odemar | The Cheater |
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Paul Kemp | Pickpocket with Six Watches |
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Theo Lingen | Bauernfänger |
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Rudolf Blümner | Beckert's Defender |
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Georg John | Blind Panhandler |
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Franz Stein | Minister |
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Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur | Police Chief |
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Gerhard Bienert | Criminal Secretary |
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Karl Platen | Damowitz |
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Rosa Valetti | Bartender |
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Hertha von Walther | Prostitute |
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Lucie Rhoden | Sekretärin im Polizeiarchiv |
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Joseph Almas | Xxx |
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Carl Balhaus | Leeser - Man Who Marks Hans Beckert |
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Hans Behal | Xxx |
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Paul Biensfeldt | Man suspected in street |
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Behal Carrell | |
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Josef Dahmen |
| Director | Fritz Lang |
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| Writer | Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang, Egon Jacobson | |
| Producer | Seymour Nebenzal | |
| Photography | Fritz Arno Wagner | |
| Edition | Criterion Collection Blu-Ray Edition |
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| Packaging | HD Case |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) Widescreen (1.66:1) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital Mono [English] LPCM Mono [German] |
| Subtitles | English | English (Closed Captioned) |
| Distributor | The Criterion Collection |
| Layers | Single side, Dual layer |
| Edition Release Date | May 11, 2010 |
| Regions | Region A |
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| Quantity | 1 |
| Index | 2602 |
| Added Date | Dec 26, 2022 15:07:24 |
| Modified Date | Jun 23, 2023 22:13:47 |
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A simple, haunting musical phrase whistled offscreen tells us that a young girl will be killed. “Who Is the Murderer?” pleads a nearby placard as serial killer Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) closes in on little Elsie Beckmann . . . In his harrowing masterwork M, Fritz Lang merges trenchant social commentary with chilling suspense, creating a panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thriller.
SPECIAL FEATURES
New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Audio commentary by German film scholars Anton Kaes, author of the BFI Film Classics volume on M, and Eric Rentschler, author of The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife
The long-lost English-language version of M, from a nitrate print preserved by the British Film Institute (Blu-ray only)
Conversation with Fritz Lang, a 50-minute film by William Friedkin
Claude Chabrol’s M le maudit, a short film inspired by M, plus a video interview with Chabrol about Lang's filmmaking techniques
Video interview with Harold Nebenzal, son of M producer Seymour Nebenzal
Classroom audiotapes of editor Paul Falkenberg discussing the film and its history, set to clips from the film
Documentary on the physical history of M, from production to distribution to digital restoration
Galleries of behind-the-scenes photographs and production sketches
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by film critic Stanley Kauffmann, a 1963 interview with Lang, and, for the Blu-ray edition, the script for a missing scene and three contemporaneous newspaper articles
New cover by Sarah Habibi
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