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Fritz Lang · 1931 CE · Film · German · Modernist

A city's children are being murdered, and the police response is heavy enough that the criminal underworld can no longer work. The thieves and beggars organize a manhunt of their own, marking the man they are after with a chalk letter. Early sound cinema turning sound itself into evidence: a whistled tune, a city listening.

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