FILM IN FOCUS: M

FILM IN FOCUS: M


We learn in the first few minutes of Fritz Lang’s M (1931) that a child murderer is terrorizing Berlin. As the opening sequence unfolds, we return to the flat where Elsie Beckman's mother is expecting her daughter’s return.



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