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When Berlin is terrorized by a serial killer who preys on children, the citizens, the police and the criminal underworld join forces for a manhunt. This visually stunning film is one of the defining masterpieces of the German Expressionist movement.
1931
English
Mystery & Suspense
Drama
Crime Drama
Crime
Organized Crime
Suspense/thriller
Cast & Crew
Peter Lorre
(Actor)
.. Franz Becker
Ellen Widmann
(Actor)
.. Mother
Inge Landgut
(Actor)
.. Child
Otto Wernicke
(Actor)
.. Inspector Karl Lohmann
Theo Lingen
(Actor)
.. Bauernfaenger
Theodor Loos
(Actor)
.. Police Commissioner Groeber
Georg John
(Actor)
.. Blind Peddler
Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur
(Actor)
.. Police Chief
Paul Kemp
(Actor)
.. Pickpocket
Franz Stein
(Actor)
.. Minister
Rudolf Blümner
(Actor)
.. Defense Attorney
Karl Platen
(Actor)
.. Watchman
Gerhard Bienert
(Actor)
.. Police Secretary
Rosa Valetti
(Actor)
.. Servant
Hertha von Walther
(Actor)
.. Prostitute
Fritz Odemar
(Actor)
.. The Cheater
Friedrich Gnass
(Actor)
.. Burglar
Heinrich Gretler
(Actor)
Lotte Lobinger
(Actor)
Isenta
(Actor)
Leonard Steckel
(Actor)
.. Karchow
Albert Karchow
(Actor)
Edgar Pauly
(Actor)
Werner Kepich
(Actor)
Gunther Neumann
(Actor)
Hermann Krehan
(Actor)
Josef Almas
(Actor)
Kurth
(Actor)
Carl Balthaus
(Actor)
Leeser
(Actor)
Hans Behal
(Actor)
Rosa Lichenstein
(Actor)
Carell
(Actor)
Sigurd Lohde
(Actor)
Hugo Döblin
(Actor)
Alfred Loretto
(Actor)
J.A. Eckhoff
(Actor)
Mascheck
(Actor)
Else Ehser
(Actor)
Matthis
(Actor)
Karl Elzer
(Actor)
Paul Mederow
(Actor)
Erwin Faber
(Actor)
Margarete Melzer
(Actor)
Ilse Furstenberg
(Actor)
Trude Moss
(Actor)
Gelingk
(Actor)
Hadrian M. Netto
(Actor)
Goldstein
(Actor)
Nied
(Actor)
Anna Goltz
(Actor)
Klaus Pohl
(Actor)
Heinrich Gotho
(Actor)
Franz Polland
(Actor)
Gunther Hadank
(Actor)
Rebane
(Actor)
Robert Hartberg
(Actor)
Paul Rehkopf
(Actor)
Ernst Paul Hempel
(Actor)
Reihsig
(Actor)
Oskar Höcker
(Actor)
Rhaden
(Actor)
Albert Hoermann
(Actor)
Hans Ritter
(Actor)
Max Sablotski
(Actor)
Alexander Sascha
(Actor)
Agnes Schulz-Lichterfeld
(Actor)
Karl Heinz Stroux
(Actor)
Swinborne
(Actor)
Wolf Trutz
(Actor)
Otto Waldis
(Actor)
Borwin Walth
(Actor)
Rolf Wanka
(Actor)
Gelin Wannemann
(Actor)
Ernst Wulf
(Actor)
Bruno Ziener
(Actor)
Josef Damen
(Actor)
Maja Norden
(Actor)
Gustav Gründgens
(Actor)
.. Safecracker
Gustaf Gründgens
(Actor)
.. Schränker
Rudolf Blümner
(Actor)
.. Beckert's defender
Behal Carrell
(Actor)
Josef Dahmen
(Actor)
Ilse Fürstenberg
(Actor)
Günther Hadank
(Actor)
Ellen Isenta
(Actor)
.. Woman
Karl Swinburne
(Actor)
.. Man
Kurth Leeser
(Actor)
Rose Lichtenstein
(Actor)
Lotte Loebinger
(Actor)
.. Woman
Hanna Maron
(Actor)
.. Girl in circle at the beginning
Rose Valetti
(Actor)
.. Landlady
Hugo Döblin
(Actor)
More Information
Did You Know..
Peter Lorre
(Actor)
.. Franz Becker
Born:
June 26, 1904
Died: March 23, 1964
Birthplace: Rozsahegy, Austria-Hungary
Died: March 23, 1964
Birthplace: Rozsahegy, Austria-Hungary
Trivia:
With the possible exception of Edward G. Robinson, no actor has so often been the target of impressionists as the inimitable, Hungarian-born Peter Lorre. Leaving his family home at the age of 17, Lorre sought out work as an actor, toiling as a bank clerk during down periods. He went the starving-artist route in Switzerland and Austria before settling in Germany, where he became a favorite of playwright Bertolt Brecht. For most of his first seven years as a professional actor, Lorre employed his familiar repertoire of wide eyes, toothy grin, and nasal voice to invoke laughs rather than shudders. In fact, he was appearing in a stage comedy at the same time that he was filming his breakthrough picture M (1931), in which he was cast as a sniveling child murderer. When Hitler ascended to power in 1933, Lorre fled to Paris, and then to London, where he appeared in his first English-language film, Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). Although the monolingual Lorre had to learn his lines phonetically for Hitchcock, he picked up English fairly rapidly, and, by 1935, was well equipped both vocally and psychologically to take on Hollywood. On the strength of M, Lorre was initially cast in roles calling for varying degrees of madness, such as the love-obsessed surgeon in Mad Love (1935) and the existentialist killer in Crime and Punishment (1935). Signed to a 20th Century Fox contract in 1936, Lorre asked for and received a chance to play a good guy for a change. He starred in eight installments of the Mr. Moto series, playing an ever-polite (albeit well versed in karate) Japanese detective. When the series folded in 1939, Lorre freelanced in villainous roles at several studios. While under contract to Warner Bros., Lorre played effeminate thief Joel Cairo in The Maltese Falcon (1941), launching an unofficial series of Warner films in which Lorre was teamed with his Falcon co-star Sidney Greenstreet. During this period, Lorre's co-workers either adored or reviled him for his wicked sense of humor and bizarre on-set behavior. As far as director Jean Negulesco was concerned, Lorre was the finest actor in Hollywood; Negulesco fought bitterly with the studio brass for permission to cast Lorre as the sympathetic leading man in The Mask of Dimitrios (1946), in which the diminutive actor gave one of his finest and subtlest performances. In 1951, Lorre briefly returned to Germany, where he directed and starred in the intriguing (if not wholly successful) postwar psychological drama The Lost One. The '50s were a particularly busy time for Lorre; he performed frequently on such live television anthologies as Climax; guested on comedy and variety shows; and continued to appear in character parts in films. He remained a popular commodity into the '60s, especially after co-starring with the likes of Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, and Basil Rathbone in a series of tongue-in-cheek Edgar Allan Poe adaptations for filmmaker Roger Corman. Lorre's last film, completed just a few months before his fatal heart attack in 1964, was Jerry Lewis' The Patsy, in which, ironically, the dourly demonic Lorre played a director of comedy films.
Ellen Widmann
(Actor)
.. Mother
Born:
January 01, 1893
Died: January 01, 1985
Died: January 01, 1985
Inge Landgut
(Actor)
.. Child
Born:
November 23, 1922
Otto Wernicke
(Actor)
.. Inspector Karl Lohmann
Born:
January 01, 1892
Died: January 01, 1965
Died: January 01, 1965
Trivia:
Major German actor.
Theo Lingen
(Actor)
.. Bauernfaenger
Theodor Loos
(Actor)
.. Police Commissioner Groeber
Born:
January 01, 1882
Died: January 01, 1954
Died: January 01, 1954
Georg John
(Actor)
.. Blind Peddler
Born:
July 23, 1879
Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur
(Actor)
.. Police Chief
Born:
March 06, 1886
Paul Kemp
(Actor)
.. Pickpocket
Born:
January 01, 1898
Died: January 01, 1953
Died: January 01, 1953
Franz Stein
(Actor)
.. Minister
Born:
July 29, 1880
Rudolf Blümner
(Actor)
.. Defense Attorney
Born:
January 01, 1873
Died: January 01, 1945
Died: January 01, 1945
Karl Platen
(Actor)
.. Watchman
Born:
January 01, 1876
Died: January 01, 1952
Died: January 01, 1952
Gerhard Bienert
(Actor)
.. Police Secretary
Born:
January 08, 1898
Rosa Valetti
(Actor)
.. Servant
Born:
March 17, 1878
Hertha von Walther
(Actor)
.. Prostitute
Born:
June 12, 1903
Fritz Odemar
(Actor)
.. The Cheater
Born:
January 13, 1890
Friedrich Gnass
(Actor)
.. Burglar
Born:
November 13, 1892
Heinrich Gretler
(Actor)
Born:
January 01, 1896
Died: January 01, 1977
Died: January 01, 1977
Lotte Lobinger
(Actor)
Isenta
(Actor)
Leonard Steckel
(Actor)
.. Karchow
Born:
January 18, 1901
Albert Karchow
(Actor)
Edgar Pauly
(Actor)
Werner Kepich
(Actor)
Gunther Neumann
(Actor)
Hermann Krehan
(Actor)
Josef Almas
(Actor)
Kurth
(Actor)
Carl Balthaus
(Actor)
Leeser
(Actor)
Hans Behal
(Actor)
Rosa Lichenstein
(Actor)
Carell
(Actor)
Sigurd Lohde
(Actor)
Born:
June 04, 1899
Hugo Döblin
(Actor)
Alfred Loretto
(Actor)
J.A. Eckhoff
(Actor)
Mascheck
(Actor)
Else Ehser
(Actor)
Born:
November 22, 1894
Matthis
(Actor)
Karl Elzer
(Actor)
Paul Mederow
(Actor)
Erwin Faber
(Actor)
Margarete Melzer
(Actor)
Ilse Furstenberg
(Actor)
Born:
December 12, 1907
Trude Moss
(Actor)
Gelingk
(Actor)
Born:
January 01, 1966
Died: January 01, 1973
Died: January 01, 1973
Hadrian M. Netto
(Actor)
Born:
June 06, 1885
Goldstein
(Actor)
Nied
(Actor)
Anna Goltz
(Actor)
Klaus Pohl
(Actor)
Born:
November 01, 1883
Heinrich Gotho
(Actor)
Born:
July 26, 1891
Franz Polland
(Actor)
Gunther Hadank
(Actor)
Born:
October 20, 1892
Rebane
(Actor)
Robert Hartberg
(Actor)
Paul Rehkopf
(Actor)
Born:
January 01, 1871
Died: January 01, 1949
Died: January 01, 1949
Ernst Paul Hempel
(Actor)
Reihsig
(Actor)
Oskar Höcker
(Actor)
Born:
June 13, 1840
Rhaden
(Actor)
Albert Hoermann
(Actor)
Hans Ritter
(Actor)
Max Sablotski
(Actor)
Alexander Sascha
(Actor)
Agnes Schulz-Lichterfeld
(Actor)
Karl Heinz Stroux
(Actor)
Swinborne
(Actor)
Wolf Trutz
(Actor)
Otto Waldis
(Actor)
Born:
January 01, 1905
Died: January 01, 1974
Died: January 01, 1974
Trivia:
With his learned countenance and a correct Germanic manner that could be avuncular or threatening, Otto Waldis was one of the more familiar European character actors in Hollywood and on television in the years after World War II. Born Otto Brunn in Vienna, Austria, in 1901, he turned to acting in his twenties and made his screen debut in an uncredited role in Fritz Lang's M in 1931. He worked in one more movie that year -- Kinder Vor Gericht -- and then was unseen in films until after the war. Waldis' career resumed in 1947 in Hollywood under the aegis of his fellow European expatriate, director Max Ophüls, in the latter's The Exile. He was fully employed over the next decade, working constantly in television and movies, his performances covering a wide swath of entertainment. In 1948 alone, before he'd even made the jump to television, Waldis worked in popular, big studio productions like Henry Hathaway's Call Northside 777, Jacques Tourneur's Berlin Express, and independent films such as Ophüls' Letter From an Unknown Woman. He went on to play character roles in lighter fare, including the comedies I Was a Male War Bride and Love Happy (both 1949). With his wizened, bespectacled presence and correct Austrian bearing, Waldis was suited to roles ranging from valets to scientists; in The Whip Hand (1951), he played an unrepentant Nazi germ-warfare expert, while in Unknown World (1951) and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958), he played more benign scientists. But in 5 Fingers (1952), he was a Pullman porter, and in the Adventures of Superman episode "The Whistling Bird," he was part of a criminal conspiracy. He would occasionally play much more offbeat parts, such as Patch-Eye in Prince Valiant (1954). He closed out the 1950s portraying a police officer in Edward Dmytryk's disastrous remake of The Blue Angel (1959). Waldis' activity slackened considerably in the '60s, a period in which he made his first appearances in German films since the '30s. He was back in Hollywood during the '70s and had just been signed to appear in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein at the time of his death from a heart attack in early 1974.
Borwin Walth
(Actor)
Rolf Wanka
(Actor)
Born:
February 14, 1901
Gelin Wannemann
(Actor)
Ernst Wulf
(Actor)
Bruno Ziener
(Actor)
Born:
June 11, 1870
Josef Damen
(Actor)
Maja Norden
(Actor)
Gustav Gründgens
(Actor)
.. Safecracker
Gustaf Gründgens
(Actor)
.. Schränker
Born:
December 22, 1899
Died: January 01, 1963
Died: January 01, 1963
Trivia:
German actor Gustaf Gründgens was best known for working in theater as an actor, director and producer. He acted in a few films during the '20s and '30s and is best remembered for playing the crime boss in Fritz Lang's M (1931). After 1937, Gründgens began heading German theaters and later became a filmmaker.
Rudolf Blümner
(Actor)
.. Beckert's defender
Behal Carrell
(Actor)
Josef Dahmen
(Actor)
Born:
August 21, 1903
Ilse Fürstenberg
(Actor)
Günther Hadank
(Actor)
Ellen Isenta
(Actor)
.. Woman
Karl Swinburne
(Actor)
.. Man
Kurth Leeser
(Actor)
Rose Lichtenstein
(Actor)
Lotte Loebinger
(Actor)
.. Woman
Hanna Maron
(Actor)
.. Girl in circle at the beginning
Died:
May 30, 2014
Rose Valetti
(Actor)
.. Landlady
Hugo Döblin
(Actor)
Born:
January 01, 1874
Died: January 01, 1960
Died: January 01, 1960
