欧美电影简介：《凶手》（在线收听）

1932年，朗拍摄了他自己第一部有声电影《凶手》（M）。本片是以轰动一时的“杀人恶魔杜塞尔道夫”的犯罪事件为题材而摄制的，朗本想把影片题名为《杀人犯就在我们中间》（M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Murder）。但据说他的制片人从纳粹党那里获悉希特勒在大选中可能获胜，因担心该片有被禁的危险，建设朗放弃了这一片名。这部影片被公认为朗最具有代表性的作品，具有完美的艺术手法，将人物形象、音响和象征等细节完美结合在一起，如母亲的喊叫、凶犯口中轻轻吹着的葬礼进行曲、象征死去的孩子气球等等，同时，对政府冷酷的嘲讽可谓是开创黑色幽默电影的先河，如通过对比手法，将政府官员开会与非法组织聚会完美地剪辑在一起，达到一种极其巧妙的讽喻作用。

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.