The Not-So-Silent Partners Of Filmmaker Fritz Lang; Movie Festival Accompanists Face a Tall Musical Order

The Washington Post | January 13, 2002| | Copyright

In the first talkie made by the pioneering German film director Fritz Lang, the dialogue is sparse and there is no music other than a little whistling. "M," made in 1931, three years before Lang left Germany to avoid Nazi censorship, is as dark a film as a very dark era in filmmaking produced. It follows the pursuit and capture of a notorious child killer, played by a wild-eyed yet infantile Peter Lorre. Lang announces the killer's presence with a short scrap of melody from Grieg's "Peer Gynt," whistled by the killer as a kind of nervous tic and leitmotif to announce yet another murder.

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