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Director	Fritz Lang
Release year	1931
Genre	Crime / Mystery / Thriller
My watch history	2024-03-18
Actors	Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos, Gustaf Gründgens
IMDB	IMDB

Review

Multiple children have lost and later found dead and the police is without a clue who is the killer. They have tried to solve this mystery some time already and new victim dies. Criminals also want to find this child killing monster and they start to investigate this case on their own so they could continue their own crimes after that more freely when police wouldn't be all around all the time.

This was touching movie what gave me also some kind of anxious and uneasy feelings. It was made great since I could feel nothing but the sympathy and the sadness towards the lunatic who felt sorry for his crimes, but who couldn't help what he had been doing because of his sick mind. At the same time, criminals and average citizens were fast to judge the man to death, even the criminals themselves have killed people as well even without being a mad. This gave the great contrast to think about how fast we are to judge and give cruel sentences when we do not even know all the facts of the cases. Punishing for the crimes should be made by judges and the law, not by people taking the law in their own hands.

Film was built very well. The plot thickens step by step and nothing is revealed too much too early.

This was an excellent psychological thriller.

Review written: 2024-03-18