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M is a 1931 German drama-thriller directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre. It was written by Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou and was Lang's first film with sound, although he had directed more than a dozen films previously. Thefilm has become a classic which Lang himself considered his finest work. The filmis set in Berlin in 1931. The police are looking for a child murderer and start rounding up all the criminals they know. The city's gangs decide to try and catch the killer themselves. They do just that and try him in their own court. The police rescue him and arrest him so that he can stand trial again. The film ends with a warning to parents to watch over their children.
M就是兇手是一部上映于1931年的德國恐怖電影，導演弗里茨·朗，主演彼得·羅瑞。故事是由朗和他的妻子特婭·馮·哈堡共同編寫，這是朗的第一部有聲電影，盡管這之前他已經導演過數十部影片。這是一部經典影片，朗也認為這是他最好的一部影片。故事發生在1931年的柏林。警察正在追查一名殺害兒童的殺人犯，并開始召集所有罪犯。城市中的黑社會也開始追查這個殺人兇手。黑社會將他審訊。警察將他逮捕，并對他再一次進行了審判。故事的結尾出現了一則警告，督促家長看管好自己的孩子。
M is supposedly based on the real-life case of serial killer Peter Kürten, the "Vampire of Düsseldorf", whose crimes took place in the 1920s. Lang denied that he was influenced in any way by this case. Lang told film historian Gero Gandert in a 1963 interview: "At the time I decided to use the subject matter of M there were many serial killers terrorizing Germany." M premiered on May 11, 1931 in a version lasting 117 minutes. The original negative is preserved at the Federal Film Archive in a 96-minute version. In 1960 a shortened version was released lasting 98 minutes. The original 1931 version was ranked #33 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010.
M就是兇手是根據真實的連環案殺手-彼德·卻爾登事件改編而成，他也被人們稱之為“杜塞道夫的吸血鬼”，他在20世紀20年代犯下了滔天罪行。朗否認稱他曾經受到這起案件的影響。在1963年的采訪中，朗告訴電影史學家吉羅說：“我就是想用M就是兇手這部電影來告誡人們，許多連環殺手正在恐嚇著整個德國”。M就是兇手公映于1931年的5月11日，電影時長117分鐘。原始電影保存在了聯邦電影資料館中，時長為96分鐘。1960年，時長為98分鐘的M就是兇手山上映。2010年，帝國雜志的“100部世界最佳影片”把1931年的原始版列入到了此行列當中，并排在了第31位。
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