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 (Peter Lorre) closes in on little Elsie Beckmann . . . In his harrowing masterwork M, Fritz Lang 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.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary by German film scholars Anton Kaes, author of the BFI Film Classics volume on M, and Eric Rentschler, author of The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife
- The long-lost English-language version of M, from a nitrate print preserved by the British Film Institute
- Conversation with Fritz Lang, a 50-minute film by William Friedkin
- Claude Chabrol’s M le maudit, a short film inspired by M, plus a video interview with Chabrol about Lang's filmmaking techniques
- Video interview with Harold Nebenzal, son of M producer Seymour Nebenzal
- Classroom audiotapes of editor Paul Falkenberg discussing the film and its history, set to clips from the film
- Documentary on the physical history of M, from production to distribution to digital restoration
- Galleries of behind-the-scenes photographs and production sketches
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Stanley Kauffmann, a 1963 interview with Lang, the script for a missing scene and three contemporaneous newspaper articles
Collector's Sets
Collector's Set
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary by German film scholars Anton Kaes, author of the BFI Film Classics volume on M, and Eric Rentschler, author of The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife
- The long-lost English-language version of M, from a nitrate print preserved by the British Film Institute
- Conversation with Fritz Lang, a 50-minute film by William Friedkin
- Claude Chabrol’s M le maudit, a short film inspired by M, plus a video interview with Chabrol about Lang's filmmaking techniques
- Video interview with Harold Nebenzal, son of M producer Seymour Nebenzal
- Classroom audiotapes of editor Paul Falkenberg discussing the film and its history, set to clips from the film
- Documentary on the physical history of M, from production to distribution to digital restoration
- Galleries of behind-the-scenes photographs and production sketches
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Stanley Kauffmann, a 1963 interview with Lang, the script for a missing scene and three contemporaneous newspaper articles
Cast
- Peter Lorre
- Hans Beckert
- Ellen Widmann
- Frau Beckmann
- Inge Landgut
- Elsie Beckmann
- Otto Wernicke
- Superintendent Lohmann
- Theodor Loos
- Superintendent Groeber
- Gustaf Gründgens
- Safebreaker
- Friedrich Gnaß
- Burglar
- Fritz Odemar
- Cardsharp
- Paul Kemp
- Pickpocket
- Theo Lingen
- Confidence trickster
- Rudolf Blümner
- Counsel for the defense
- Georg John
- Blind street vendor
Credits
- Director
- Fritz Lang
- Screenplay
- Thea von Harbou
- Screenplay
- Fritz Lang
- Cinematography
- Fritz Arno Wagner
- Sound
- Adolf Jansen
- Editing
- Paul Falkenberg
- Producer
- Seymour Nebenzal
- Production design
- Emil Hasler
- Production design
- Karl Vollbrecht
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