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M - Special
Edition - 2 Disc Set
Behind every great suspense thriller
lurks the shadow of M. In this, Fritz Lang's first sound film,
Peter Lorre delivers a haunting performance as the cinema's first serial
killer, a whistling pedophile hunted by the police and brought to trial
by the forces of the Berlin underworld. Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite"
will never sound the same.
DVD - The Criterion Collection - 2 Disc Set
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Audio commentary by German film scholar Eric Rentschler, author
of The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife,
and Anton Kaes, author of the BFI Film Classics volume on M
- 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, and production sketches
by art director Emil Hasler
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Plus: a booklet featuring an essay by film critic Stanley Kauffmann,
a 1963 interview with Lang, and the script for a missing scene
Curator's Comments:
Roger
Ebert's essay on this DVD Classic.
Director:
Fritz Lang
Black & White
110 minutes
Released: 1931
Rating: NR
Country: Germany
Language: German (English subtitles)
Genre: Crime/Thriller
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