Plot Summary

SPECIAL FEATURES:

• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.19:1
• Audio commentary by German film scholars Anton Kaes, author of the BFI Film Classics volume on M, and Eric Rentschler, author of The Ministryof Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife
• Conversation with Fritz Lang, a 50-minute film by William Friedkin
• Claude Chabrol’s M le Maudit, a short film inspired by M, plus an interview with Chabrol by Pierre-Henri Gibert about Lang's filmmaking techniques
• Classroom tapes of M editor Paul Falkenberg discussing the film and its history
• nterview with Harold Nebenzal, the son of M producer Seymour Nebenzal
• A physical history of M
• tills gallery, with behind-the-scenes photos, and production sketches by art director Emil Hasler
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• Plus: a 32-page booklet featuring an essay by film critic Stanley Kauffmann, a 1963 interview with Lang, the script for a missing scene, and contemporaneous newspaper articles