Critical Essay by FranÇois Truffaut
Fritz Lang seems to be constantly settling his accounts with society. His main characters are always outsiders, marginal people. The hero of M was portrayed...
Read more
Critical Essay by Lotte H. Eisner
Lang's films are characterised by their peculiar mixture of realism and fantasy…. Even during his German period, in which so many critics find evidence...
Read more
Critical Essay by William Troy
["M"] is based on the crimes and the final apprehension by the police of the famous child murderer of Düsseldorf. Certainly no subject could be mor...
Read more
In the following essay, Chang discusses the role that Schranker plays in the narrative of Lang's M, and questions the character's purpose in the film.
In the almost fifty years since ...
Read more
Critical Essay by FranÇois Truffaut
