M

8.1

Germany

Drama Thriller Crime

111 min

1931

Theo Lingen Carl Ballhaus Hertha von Walther Rosa Valetti Karl Platen Gerhard Bienert Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur Georg John Rudolf Blümner Peter Lorre Paul Kemp Fritz Odemar Gustaf Gründgens Theodor Loos Otto Wernicke Inge Landgut Ellen Widmann

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.