Movie
1931
M is a 1931 German mystery thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert, a serial killer who targets children, in his third screen role. Both Lang's first sound film and an early example of a procedural drama, M centres on the efforts of both a city's police force and its criminal syndicates to apprehend a serial child-murderer.
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Fritz Lang is one of the most influential film-makers of the 20th Century. This has a lot to do with his versatility and ability to exploit the creative potential of Weimar Germany. In 1927 his silent spectacle *Metropolis* has set the standards of what proper science fiction film should look like. Four years later *M*, his first sound film, did the same for crime films and especially for those using the motive of s…More
