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1931 · TMDB 8.1 · M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
Directed by Fritz Lang
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.
Why it matters
Fritz Lang's landmark thriller, with Peter Lorre as a child murderer hunted by both the police and the underworld in Weimar Berlin.
From The Mind's Eye: Crime Films of Obsession and Interiority
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Released
- 1931-05-11
- Studio
- Nero-Film AG
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- German
- TMDB score
- 8.1
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