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M

Criterion / Year: 1931

DVD Criterion Coll. More Info Criterion Collection Region Code: None UPC: 037429197820 Catalog #: DV1113591 Languages: German Dolby Digital Mono (Primary), English subtitles	Usually ships in 5-10 days	$35.99 (10% off) List Price: $39.99
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Synopsis

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, played by 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.

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It is ranked #57 on the Internet Movie Database's 250 Greatest Films of All Time.
M is, quite simply, one of the greatest, most chilling films ever made.
This incredible release from the Criterion Collection features an alternate English language version of M, two additional bonus films from Claude Chabrol and William Friedkin and hours of special features following the history of Fritz Lang's masterpiece.

Review

After a decade of making hugely popular fantasy, sci-fi and spy movies, Lang made his own undisputable masterpiece, M, scripted by his wife, Thea von Harbou, a Nazi sympathizer. Working on a tighter budget and a shorter schedule than he was used to, Lang brilliantly synthesized his expressionistic tendencies with the torn-from-today's-headlines style that typified his later Hollywood work. Lorre, in one of his earliest film roles, finds the pathos in this nondescript Everyman whose psyche has been so poisoned that he is driven to raping and murdering little girls. The terrified city wants action: swift, decisive, effective. But when the State is found to be impotent, the meta-government -- organized crime -- sets up a dangerous option for a nation ill-prepared to select wisely. A harrowing psychological drama inspired by an actual 1929 Dusseldorf incident. This is the remastered, longer (by seven minutes) version, which includes the original German ending. (German with English subtitles)

Product Format Information

DVD : $35.99 (Criterion Collection)

Availability: Usually ships in
5-10 days
Running Time: 110 minutes
Region Code: None
UPC: 037429197820
Catalog #: DV1113591

Studio : Criterion

Languages: German Dolby Digital Mono (Primary) , English Subtitles
Aspect Ratio: 1.19
Features:
Audio commentary: German film scholar Eric Rentschler, author of The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife, & Anton Kaes, author of the BFI Film Classics volume on M
New and improved transfer; Conversation with Fritz Lang an interview film by William Friedkin; Claude Chabrol's M le Maudit, a short film inspired by M; Classroom tapes of M editor Paul Falkenberg discussing the film and its history; Interview with Harold Nebenzal, the son of M producer Seymour Nebenzal; A physical history of M; Stills gallery, with behind-the-scenes photos & production sketches by art director Emil Hasler; New and improved English subtitle translation; Plus: a Booklet featuring an Essay by film critic Stanley Kauffmann; 1963 Interview with Lang; Script for a missing scene

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Blu-ray : $35.99

Availability: Usually ships in
5-10 days
Region Code: 1
UPC: 715515057714
Catalog #: DB1113593

Studio : Criterion

Languages: German (Primary) , English Subtitles
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen, 1.19
Features:
Digitally remastered: Restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition).
Bonus film: The long-lost English-language version of M (on the Blu-ray edition).
Audio commentary: 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.
Documentaries: Documentary on the physical history of M, from production to distribution to digital restoration.
Bonus film: Conversation with Fritz Lang, a 50-minute film by director William Friedkin.
Bonus film: Claude Chabrol’s M le Maudit, a short film inspired by M, plus an interview with Chabrol by Pierre-Henri Gibert about Lang’s filmmaking techniques.
Interview(s): Classroom audiotapes of editor Paul Falkenberg discussing M and its history, set to clips from the film.
Interview(s): Video interview with Harold Nebenzal, the son of M producer Seymour Nebenzal.
Photo gallery: Stills gallery, with behind-the-scenes photos, and production sketches by art director Emil Hasler.
Booklet: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Stanley Kauffmann, a 1963 interview with Lang, the script for a missing scene, and contemporaneous newspaper articles.

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Cast: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos, Gustaf Gründgens, Friedrich Gnaß, Fritz Odemar, Paul Kemp, Theo Lingen, Rudolf Blümner, Georg John

Director: Fritz Lang

Screenwriter: Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang

Cinematographer: Fritz Arno Wagner

Country: Germany

Length: 1 hr 46 min

Year: 1931

Studio : Criterion

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