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1928
Spione is a 1928 German silent espionage thriller directed by Fritz Lang and co-written with his wife, Thea von Harbou, who also wrote a novel of the same name, published a year later. The film was Lang's penultimate silent film and the first for his own production company, Fritz Lang-Film GmbH. As in Lang's Mabuse films, Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922) and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933), Rudolf Klein-Rogge plays…
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Fritz Lang, a titan of cinema whose contributions span both the silent and sound eras, is frequently canonised as the father of the modern thriller. While works like *Metropolis* have secured his legacy in the realm of science fiction and dystopian futurism, one could argue with equal validity that Lang is the patriarch of the specific spy thriller genre. This title is arguably best owed to his 1928 penultimate sile…More
