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Director: Fritz Lang
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From Time Out Film Guide
Lang's first sound film was based on the real-life manhunt for the Düsseldorf child-murderer (an extraordinary performance by Peter Lorre). A radical, analytical film that entertains many of Lang's fascinations: innovative use of sound; the detail of police procedure; the parallels drawn between organised police behaviour and the underworld... a construction which carries Lang's own view of the arbitrariness of the Law. A subversive film, or more simply a movie brimming over with the ferment of Lang's imagination at its height? You choose.Author: RM
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- Dr Hassiotti said...
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Posted on Jul 10 2011 21:51
This is an example what cinema, art, is all about. Is not only the entertainment side of this film, but also that it tells you about the problems in society and the complexity of it.I wonder what the new generation would
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- Ethan Cohen said...
- Posted on May 12 2011 17:55 There has never in the history of cinema, been so much smoking in one film. It gets so thick sometimes that you cannot see the other side of the room. As such, the viewer is forced to conclude that 'active smoking' of such ferocity is likely to be just as, if not more dangerous than its cousin 'passive'
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- Dr. Herbert I. Cohen said...
- Posted on Sep 04 2010 04:01 This supermature, superbly reconstructed film is surely one of thebest films evermade. Not to be missed. comment you type in this box will appear on the site
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Cast & crew
Director: Fritz Lang
Producer: Seymour Nebenzal
Cast: Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Gustav Gründgens, Theodor Loos full cast
Duration: 118 mins
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