English Speaking Film Club: M — A City Searches for a Murderer

English Speaking Film Club: M — A City Searches for a Murderer

This Thursday at the English-speaking film club we will watch a social thriller that anticipated the film-noir genre:

M: Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder / M — A City Searches for a Murderer

Director: Fritz Lang
Screenplay: Thea von Harbou
Cast: Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Gustav Gründgens
Duration: 1 h 57 min
Language: German with English subtitles

About the film:

A maniac spreads fear throughout the City. Little girls fail to return home and simply disappear. The police are exhausted from searching for the criminal, yet all efforts seem futile. Alarmed by the intense police activity, the City’s criminal underworld decides to launch its own hunt for the murderer.