M curses it

M curses it ( M ) is a German film carried out by Fritz Lang, left in 1931.

Synopsis

Terror reigns within a large German city: children disappear, wildly assassinated. The parents worry, the public opinion, in prey with panic, loses themselves in conjectures and suspicions. The murderer, him, nargue the police force, sending letters to the press while the police force tramples.

Comment

It is about first talking film about Fritz Lang which hitherto directed more than one dozen of silent films including Metropolis. With time, M curses it became traditional recognized, competing with other works of Lang for the title of “opus magnum”. During years after the exit of the Lorre film remained catalogued like malicious to have been a murderer of child there (and, it is implied, a paedophile). M the maudit was also a pioneer in the use of the leitmotiv to give more intensity to the musical accompaniment.

Data sheet

  • Title: M curses it or M, your assassin looks at you
  • original Titer: M , Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (either a city seeks a meutrier )
  • Another title: the film is brought out in shortened version in March 1960 under the title of
  • Réalisation: Fritz Lang
  • Scenario: Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou, Paul Falkenberg, Adolph Jang, Karl Vosh, according to an article of Egon Jacobson
  • Production: Seymour Nebenzahl
  • Production company: Nero Filmgesellschaft
  • Music: Extracts of Peer Gynt of Edvard Grieg whistled by Fritz Lang
  • Photography: Fritz Arno Wagner and Karl Vash
  • Assembly: Paul Falkenberg
  • Decorations: Karl Vollbrecht, Emil Hasler
  • Country of origin: Germany
  • Format: Black and white - 1,20:1 - Mono - 35 mm
  • Kind: drama
  • Lasted: 1:57 (initial version), 1:29 (version of 1960)
  • Coming out date: May 11th, 1931 (Germany)

Distribution

Around film

  • the film was to be initially called Mörder unter ones ( Assassins among us ). It is under this title that Lang requested the hiring of the old hangar with zeppelins of Staaken, reconverted in movie studio. He saw himself answering by the director that he would not have it. Lang included/understood why: in the discussion, he had seen the badge Nazi pinned with the reverse of the jacket of the director. This one feared that the title relates to the movement Nazi. As well, the authorization it was granted as soon as it understood that the history concerned an assassin of children.
  • As opposed to what one usually believes, the film is not inspired only a case by the vampire of Düsseldorf , Peter Kürten, but is based on a wave of murder of children who ensanglanta Germany during the Twenties, of which that of the town of Breslau which was held in 1929, and in addition to Kürten, on the murderers Fritz Haarmann, Karl Grossman, Karl Denke.
  • Peter Lorre was born in Slovakia, in the Carpates, stronghold of Dracula. M curses it is its film more known, whose fame will open to him the doors of Hollywood, but where it will hardly on the occasion to play another thing but of the supporting roles, in spite of its outstanding interpretations in the Maltese Falcon or in Casablanca .
  • It is Fritz Lang, and not Peter Lorre who whistles in film.
  • the production had engaged true shadies for turning, so that “makes true”.
  • American Remake in 1951: M of Joseph Losey with David Wayne and Howard Da Silva.

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