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8.1/ 10

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1931

Release Year

110 min

Runtime

Drama
Thriller
Crime

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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Keywords

berlin, germany
germany
psychopath
detective inspector
child murder
investigation
film noir
organized crime
serial killer
black and white
criminal
pre-code
psycho
expressionism
german expressionism
crime
defiant

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Reviews(5)

8.2avg rating
Wiccaburr

Wiccaburr

@wiccaburr

October 7, 2020

8
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 t

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badelf

May 31, 2023

10
10/10

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

James

James

@JN2012

October 20, 2023

7
7/10

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

James

James

@JN2012

October 20, 2023

7
7/10

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

Filipe Manuel Neto

Filipe Manuel Neto

@FilipeManuelNeto

October 28, 2023

9
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 fi

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