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Summary: When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.

Release Date: August 31, 1931

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Director: Fritz Lang

Writers: Thea von Harbou

, Egon Jacobsohn

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Nero-Film AG

Distributor: Foremco Pictures Corp., Paramount Pictures, Goodwill Pictures, Jerand Film Distributors, Kino International Films, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection, Films sans Frontières, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel, Sinister Cinema

Country: Germany

Language: German

Domestic: $ 35,566

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abandoned building abduction alarm anger anonymous letter apartment arrest attic ball balloon balloon vendor based on article beggar big city life blind beggar blind man blindness breaking and entering candy capital punishment capture chalk chase child child killer child murder investigation children's game cigar smoking cigarette cigarette smoking city commissioner conference crime boss crime detection methodology criminal criminal investigation criminal syndicate criminal underworld crisis cuckoo clock cult film data gathering death death of daughter death penalty denunciation desperation detective evil lead character f rated false accusation fingerprint frustration fur fur robbery gang gangster german criminal german expressionism german police graphologist grief handwriting hiding place interrogation investigation jail cell kangaroo court knife knocked unconscious landlady lawyer leitmotif letter loner long take looking at oneself in a mirror loss of daughter lynch mob magnifying glass male protagonist manhunt map mass hysteria meeting mental illness mirror mock trial montage mourning murder murder of a child murdered with a knife night watchman office building one letter title one word title orange organized crime paranoia pedophile pickpocket pistol pocket watch police police officer police procedural police raid policeman uniform poverty prostitute prostitution psychiatrist psychopath pursuit reward robbery round table sandwich schnapps schoolgirl screaming security guard self loathing serial child killer serial killer serial murder shadow shop window shouting slander smoke smoking tobacco store room streetwalker subtenant surveillance suspicion switchblade table tavern thick smoke thief tobacco torture tracking tragic villain trial urban setting vigilantism villain as protagonist wanted poster waste basket weimar republic whistling window sill wooden leg

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