When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down. The story is based on the Düsseldorf child murders of 1929.
Bibliographic Details
| Corporate Authors: |
Nero-Film A.G,
Janus Films,
Criterion Collection (Firm) |
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| Other Authors: |
Lang, Fritz, 1890-1976
(Director, Screenwriter),
Lorre, Peter
(Actor),
Widmann, Ellen
(Actor),
Landgut, Inge
(Actor),
Wernicke, Otto, 1893-1965
(Actor),
Loos, Theodor, 1883-1954
(Actor),
Gründgens, Gustaf
(Actor),
Gnass, Friedrich, 1892-1958
(Actor),
Odemar, Fritz, 1890-1955
(Actor),
Kemp, Paul
(Actor),
Lingen, Theo, 1903-1978
(Actor),
Blümner, Rudolf
(Actor),
John, Georg, 1879-1934
(Actor),
Valetti, Rosa
(Actor),
Harbou, Thea von, 1888-1954
(Screenwriter),
Nebenzal, Seymour
(Producer),
Wagner, Fritz Arno, 1894-1958
(Cinematographer),
Falkenberg, Paul
(Film editor),
Friedkin, William,
Chabrol, Claude, 1930-2010,
Nebenzal, Harold |
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| Format: | Video
DVD
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| Language: | German
English |
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| Published: |
[Irvington, N.Y.] :
Criterion Collection,
[2004]
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| Edition: | Special ed. double-disc set. |
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| Series: | Criterion collection.
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| Subjects: | |
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| Online Access: |
Click to access (Berklee OnePass required)
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| Item Description: |
- Cast list and production credits from program notes.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1931.
- DVD; Dolby Digital mono; aspect ratio 1.19:1.
- Special features (disc 1): optional audio commentary by German film scholars Anton Kaes & Eric Rentschler; color bars.
- Special features (disc 2): "Conversation with Fritz Lang" by William Friedkin (c1975, 49 min.); "M le maudit" short film by Claude Chabrol (c1982, 11 min.); interview with Chabrol about Lang (7 min.); interview with Harold Nebenzal, the son of producer Seymour Nebenzal (c2004, 14 min.); classroom tapes of editor Paul Falkenberg discussing "M" and its history (c1976-1977, 36 min.); "The physical history of M" featurette (c2004, 25 min.); gallery, with production stills, behind-the-scenes photos and production sketches by art director Emil Hasler.
- Booklet includes an essay by film critic Stanley Kauffman ("The mark of 'M'"); 3 contemporaneous articles about the film ("My film 'M' : a factual report", "Fritz Lang's 'M' : filmed sadism" & "Gangsters, too, have their professional honor"); interview with Lang by Gero Gandert ("Fritz Lang on 'M' : an interview", c1963).
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