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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, [2] M centers on the manhunt for Beckert conducted by both the police and organized crime.
Later films often categorized as part of the brief history of German Expressionism include Metropolis (1927) and M (1931), both directed by Fritz Lang. This trend was a reaction against realism. Its practitioners used extreme distortions in expression to show an inner emotional reality rather than what was on the surface. [5]
Lang was born in Vienna, as the second son of Anton Lang (1860–1940), [8] an architect and construction company manager, and his wife Pauline "Paula" Lang (née Schlesinger; 1864–1920). There is no documented evidence of the true identity of Anton Lang's biological father, he born as an illegitimate child of a maid from Moravia. [ 9 ]
Fritz Lang (1890–1976) was an Austrian film director, producer and screenwriter. In Lang's early career he worked primarily as a screenwriter, finishing film scripts in four to five days. [1] Lang directed major German films of the silent and early sound eras including Metropolis (1927) and M (1931) respectively.
M is a 1951 American film noir directed by Joseph Losey.It is a remake of Fritz Lang's 1931 German film of the same title about a child murderer. This version shifts the location of action from Berlin to Los Angeles and changes the killer's name from Hans Beckert to Martin W. Harrow.
The script of this film, written by Fritz Lang and Heinz Oskar Wuttig, was based on the Esperanto novel Mr. Tot Buys A Thousand Eyes by the Polish author Jan Fethke. It brought the Mabuse character from his previous pre-war appearances into contemporary times (the 1960s) and combined elements of the German Edgar Wallace film series , spy ...
The title alludes to the initial title of Fritz Lang's 1931 classic M, which was to be called Mörder unter uns (Murderer Among Us). The Murderers Among Us debuted on 15 October 1946 in the Admiralspalast , which was at the time the home of the Berlin State Opera , in the Soviet sector .
Friedrich Rudolf Klein (24 November 1885 – 29 May 1955), better known as Rudolf Klein-Rogge, was a German film actor, best known for playing sinister figures in films in the 1920s and 1930s as well as being a mainstay in director Fritz Lang's Weimar-era films.