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M DVD

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Runtime: 111 min

Director: Fritz Lang

Cast: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos

Studios: Nero-Film AG

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.

Special Features:

New, restored high-definition digital transfer

presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.19:1

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

New and improved English subtitle translation

PLUS: A 32-page booklet

featuring an essay by film critic Stanley Kauffmann, a 1963 interview with Lang, the script for a missing scene, and contemporaneous newspaper articles

Conversation with Fritz Lang

a 50-minute film by William Friedkin

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

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, and production sketches by art director Emil Hasler

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