M (1931)
While people tend to associate the Weimar Republic only with the birth of Nazism, it was also the environment in which thrived geniuses like Robert Wiene , Fritz Lang , F. W. Murnau , G. W. Pabst , Ernst Lubitsch and Josef von Sternberg , directors who have helped to shape the Seventh Art one way or another, all with Great Movies selected by Ebert. I have started to talk about the prolific Weimar era with Wiene 's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), regarded by many as the epitome of the German Expressionist movement and the first true horror film ever made. However, even though each one of those directors has made at least a movie I simply adore, the one I esteem the most is undoubtedly Fritz Lang , for two simple reasons: Metropolis (1927) and M . By the time serial killer Hans Beckert ( Peter Lorre ) makes his 9th victim, the city of Berlin has already been in turmoil for quite some time. The police, heade...