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  • Additional Details
  • Format: DVD
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Run Time: 110 Minutes
  • Region: 1 Region?
  • Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen
  • Language: German, English
  • Studio: Criterion Collection
  • DVD Release Date: December 7, 2004
  • Closed Captioning: No
  • Subtitles: English
  • Audio: GERMAN: Dolby Digital Mono
  • Genre: Foreign
  • Color: Black & White
  • Includes:
    Audio Commentary by German film scholar Eric Rentschler, author of The Ministry Of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife and Anton Kaes, author of the BFI Film Classics volume on M

    Conversation with Fritz Lang, an interview film by William Friedkin

    Claude Chabrol's M Le Maudit, a short film inspired by Mplus an interview with Chabrol by Pierre-Henri Gibert and Lang's filmmaking techniques.

    Classroom tapes of M editor Paul Falkenberg discussing the film and its history

    Interview with Harold Nebenzal, the son of M producer Seymour Nebenzal

    A physical history of M

    Stills gallery with behind the scenes photos, and production sketches by art director Emil Hasler

    Booklet featuring an essay by film critic Stanely Kauffmann, a 1963 interview with Lang and the script for a missing scene, and contemporaneous newspaper articles

  • Release Date: 1931
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, played by Peter Lorre (Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon), closes in on little Elsie Beckmann. In his harrowing masterwork M, Fritz Lang (Metropolis, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse) 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.

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