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110 min

Release Date: 1931-05-11

Overview - 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.

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Nero-Film AG

Overview - 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.

User Reviews

Wiccaburr

Wiccaburr

8/10

The movie is classic and yet this is my first time watching this. Peter Lorre alone is worth seeing this movie as he always played such the great villain. No music keeps your focus on the image and dialogue throughout the movie. Camera work looks pretty awesome especially when they start doing the manhunt. This movie clocks in at almost two hours so there will be a lot of pacing and dialogu...

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badelf

10/10

So you say you want to enroll in film school? Don't bother. Just watch Fritz Lang's M and Metropolis.

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James

James

7/10

Random person: Nobody knows him (The murderer). Woman who lives with the murderer: Am I a joke to you?

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James

James

7/10

Stone cold classic. Certainly one of the best time films about orange peels being littered.

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Filipe Manuel Neto

Filipe Manuel Neto

9/10

**One of the masterpieces of classic German cinema.** There isn't much that can be said about this film that almost everyone hasn't already said or written. It is one of the great films of German cinema, one of the best productions that were made before the Second World War and one of the best films in the career of the renowned director Fritz Lang, who shortly afterward would leave Germany due...

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