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M is a 1931 German mystery thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre in his third screen role as Hans Beckert, a serial killer who targets children. Both Lang's first sound film and an early example of a procedural drama, [2] M centers on the manhunt for Beckert conducted by both the police and organized crime. [3]
In the penultimate scene of Fritz Lang’s M (1931), mentally-disturbed child murderer Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) falls to his knees before a kangaroo court and cries out, “I have to roam the streets endlessly, always sensing that someone’s following me. It’s me! I’m shadowing myself!”
Aug 31, 2024 · Lorre played Hans Beckert, a psychologically tortured child murderer and presumed pedophile who terrorizes Berlin. When the authorities fail to catch him, the city’s criminal underworld joins forces with street beggars to do the job themselves, sparking a race between the two groups to find the murderer first and subject him to their own form ...
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Nov 24, 2020 · In its study of a sadistic murderer named Hans Beckert, (Peter Lorre), on the loose, M takes Lang’s global despair over a dark fate he cannot control and transfers it to a smaller scale. Lang...
Nov 18, 2020 · This is the plea of child-murdering Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre), desperate for some sort of mercy in the climax of M. Pleading as much to the audience as to the kangaroo court of criminals which has captured and tried him, Beckert speaks of compulsion and illness, he wishes for help, not punishment.
Feb 21, 2017 · Although the gruff but valiant Inspector Lohmann breaks up the kangaroo court and nabs the killer Hans Beckert on behalf of the legal system, the depiction of both the criminals and the serial murderer are ambivalent enough that its politics remain something of an open question.
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M, directed by Fritz Lang in 1931 and written by Lang and Thea von Harbou, tells the story of Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre), a child molester and murderer at large and terrorizing the populace of Berlin. The city’s police force, criminal underworld, and citizens all fruitlessly search for the murderer.
