The story
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
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Peter LorreHans Beckert
Ellen WidmannFrau Beckmann
Inge LandgutElsie Beckmann
Otto WernickeInspector Karl Lohmann
Theodor LoosInspector Groeber
Gustaf GründgensSchränker
Friedrich GnaßFranz
Fritz OdemarThe Cheater
Paul KempPickpocket with Six Watches
Theo LingenBauernfänger
Rudolf BlümnerBecker's 'Attorney'
Georg JohnBlind PanhandlerExplore the crew
- Director
- Fritz Lang
- Screenplay
- Thea von Harbou
- Editor
- Paul Falkenberg
- Director of Photography
- Fritz Arno Wagner
- Screenplay
- Fritz Lang
- Producer
- Seymour Nebenzal