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Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: MMM030 | Criterion CollectionCC2480DDVD | Criterion CollectionLanguage: German Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 30.Publication details: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2004]Edition: Special edDescription: 2 videodiscs (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (25 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)Content type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

0780029097
9780780029095
9781604659924
1604659920

Other title:

Title on container: M: a film by Fritz Lang

Uniform titles:

M (Motion picture)

Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:

791.43/72 22

LOC classification:

PN1997.A2 C75 2004 v.30

Contents:

Disc 1. The film -- Disc 2. The supplements. Conversation with Fritz Lang / William Friedkin -- M le maudit / Claude Chabrol -- Paul Falkenberg discussing the film and its history -- Interview with Harold Nebenzal -- A physical history of M -- Stills gallery, with behind-the-scenes photos and production sketches by art director Emil Hasler.

Production credits:

Cinematography, Fritz Arno Wagner ; editing, Paul Falkenberg.

Cast: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos, Gustaf Gründgens, Friedrich Gnass, Fritz Odemar, Paul Kemp, Theo Lingen, Rudolf Blümner, Georg John, Rosa Valetti.Summary: When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down. The story is based on the Düsseldorf child murders of 1929.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD 0373 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050092540

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1931.

Special features (disc 1): optional audio commentary by German film scholars Anton Kaes & Eric Rentschler; color bars.

Special features (disc 2): "Conversation with Fritz Lang" by William Friedkin (c1975, 49 min.); "M le maudit" short film by Claude Chabrol (c1982, 11 min.); interview with Chabrol about Lang (7 min.); interview with Harold Nebenzal, the son of producer Seymour Nebenzal (c2004, 14 min.); classroom tapes of editor Paul Falkenberg discussing "M" and its history (c1976-1977, 36 min.); "The physical history of M" featurette (c2004, 25 min.); gallery, with production stills, behind-the-scenes photos and production sketches by art director Emil Hasler.

Booklet includes an essay by film critic Stanley Kauffman ("The mark of 'M'"); interview with Lang by Gero Gandert ("Fritz Lang on 'M' : an interview", c1963).

DVD; NTSC, standard format (1.19:1); Dolby digital mono.

In German, with optional English subtitles.

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