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Who is the murderer?
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $35.3K
- Language
- German
- berlin, germany
- germany
- psychopath
- detective inspector
- child murder
- investigation
- film noir
- organized crime
- serial killer
- black and white
- criminal
- pre-code
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalNew York City, New York31 Mar 1933
- Theatrical14 May 1933
- Theatrical30 Sept 1933
- Theatrical1 Jan 1940
- Theatrical (limited)New York Film Forum15 Mar 2013
- PremiereTelluride Film Festival29 Aug 2014
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalLondon22 Jun 1932
- Theatrical (limited)PGRe-release5 Sept 2014
- PremiereLeeds International Film Festival16 Nov 2014
AustraliaAU
- PremierePGMelbourne International Film Festival9 Jun 1963
CanadaCA
- PhysicalBlu-Ray11 May 2010
AustriaAT
- PremiereVienna International Film Festival2 Nov 2016
BrazilBR
- Theatrical122 Aug 2019
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical158 Sept 1931
- Theatrical15Re-release27 Oct 1947
- Theatrical15Re-release24 Nov 1960
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-162 Sept 1960
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP8 Apr 1932
- TheatricalTPRe-release24 Mar 2004
- TheatricalTPRe-release (Restored Version)5 Mar 2014
GermanyDE
- TheatricalBerlin11 May 1931
- Theatrical12Restored Version6 Jun 1996
- Physical9 Oct 1996
GreeceGR
- TheatricalK1223 Jan 1933
- TheatricalK12Re-release28 Jul 2011
- PremiereAnatomy Crime & Horror International Film Festival31 Oct 2018
- TheatricalK12Re-release13 Jul 2023
ItalyIT
- Theatrical26 Aug 1960
Frequently asked questions
M was released on 11 May 1931.
Audience reviews
5- W8/10
Wiccaburr
10/7/2020
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 the manhunt. This movie clocks in at almost two hours so there will be a lot of pacing and dialogue to go through. It …
- B10/10
badelf
5/31/2023
So you say you want to enroll in film school? Don't bother. Just watch Fritz Lang's M and Metropolis.
- J7/10
James
10/20/2023
Random person: Nobody knows him (The murderer). Woman who lives with the murderer: Am I a joke to you?
- J7/10
James
10/20/2023
Stone cold classic. Certainly one of the best time films about orange peels being littered.
- F9/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
10/28/2023
**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 films in the career of the renowned director Fritz Lang, who shortly afterward would leave Germany due to the rise of Nazi…
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