M - Anton Kaes (BFI Film Classics) Classical Hollywood Set in pre-World War II

Set in pre-World War II Danzig- the preternaturally intelligent three year old Oskar takes the decision to stop growing as a response to the society he sees around him

Adapted from a Murakami short story

Henry Fonda

The most expensive film of its day - utilising vast sets

a fifty-minute documentary about actor Gian Maria Volontè

M - Anton Kaes (BFI Film Classics) Classical Hollywood Set in pre-World War II'M' by Anton Kaes (BFI Film Classics paperback) Kaes (a Berkeley professor specialising in German film) offers a close reading of Fritz Lang's remarkable film examining both its lasting formal brilliance and its cultural significance in 1931 Germany.