歐美電影簡(jiǎn)介：《兇手》

1932年，朗拍攝了他自己第一部有聲電影《兇手》(M)。本片是以轟動(dòng)一時(shí)的“殺人惡魔杜塞爾道夫”的犯罪事件為題材而攝制的，朗本想把影片題名為《殺人犯就在我們中間》(M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Murder)。但據(jù)說(shuō)他的制片人從納粹黨那里獲悉希特勒在大選中可能獲勝，因擔(dān)心該片有被禁的危險(xiǎn)，建設(shè)朗放棄了這一片名。這部影片被公認(rèn)為朗最具有代表性的作品，具有完美的藝術(shù)手法，將人物形象、音響和象征等細(xì)節(jié)完美結(jié)合在一起，如母親的喊叫、兇犯口中輕輕吹著的葬禮進(jìn)行曲、象征死去的孩子氣球等等，同時(shí)，對(duì)政府冷酷的嘲諷可謂是開創(chuàng)黑色幽默電影的先河，如通過(guò)對(duì)比手法，將政府官員開會(huì)與非法組織聚會(huì)完美地剪輯在一起，達(dá)到一種極其巧妙的諷喻作用。

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. The film has become a classic which Lang himself considered his finest work. The film is 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 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.