Spies
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 23, 2016
- Originally Released: 1928
- Label: Kino Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Willy Fritsch & Georg John | |
Performer: | Lupu Pick & Fritz Rasp | |
Directed by | Fritz Lang | |
Screenwriting by | Fritz Lang & Thea von Harbou | |
Composition by | Werner R. Heymann | |
Produced by | Erich Pommer | |
Director of Photography: | Fritz Arno Wagner |
Entertainment Reviews:
Spione is Fritz Lang's most joyous film; it partners sombre content with playful form.
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Senses of Cinema
Rating: 4/5 --
Perhaps the most underrated of Fritz Lang's silent spectacles, this tale of master criminality has all the visceral thrill and visual atmospherics of one of Louis Feuillade's Fantomas serials.
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Radio Times
Rating: 4/4 --
Spies is one of Lang's best films. That means one of the best films ever made.
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Film Comment Magazine
Lang's bravura system of trapdoors is a fearsome advance even upon Metropolis
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CinePassion
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Fritz Lang's Spiesis a classic silent espionage thriller that served as the model for all future films of its type, from Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps to the James Bond series and beyond.
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TV Guide
Throughout the bewildering mass of scenes in the German production, Spies, there is always something to intrigue the eye despite the fact that it is impossible to make head or tail of the story.
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New York Times
Inventive, delightful, superbly made spy thriller.
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Classic Film and Television
Product Description:
In perhaps his most intriguing and streamlined film, dedicated to the subject of criminal masterminds and their underground workings, Fritz Lang's SPIES follows the machinations of the wheelchair-bound master criminal, the great Haghi, as he dictates criminal orders from his headquarters deep in the belly of the city. When Haghi sends forth female agent Sonja to seduce and trick secret agent 236, Tremaine, the two unexpectedly fall in love. Haghi did not suspect that these rival agents would go astray, and he is enraged that they are endangering his plot to take over the world.
Many of the standard conventions of spy thrillers find their genesis in SPIES, including femme fatales, the crippled arch criminal and a last minute countdown to destruction. As Haghi's minions square off against the police and the secret service, attempting to steal a secret treaty, Lang mixes a pulp detective sensibility with the visual tricks, painterly aesthetics and narrative ingenuity of German Expressionism, creating a visually stunning and fast paced portrait of a master criminal and the seedy underworld of Germany between the wars.
Many of the standard conventions of spy thrillers find their genesis in SPIES, including femme fatales, the crippled arch criminal and a last minute countdown to destruction. As Haghi's minions square off against the police and the secret service, attempting to steal a secret treaty, Lang mixes a pulp detective sensibility with the visual tricks, painterly aesthetics and narrative ingenuity of German Expressionism, creating a visually stunning and fast paced portrait of a master criminal and the seedy underworld of Germany between the wars.
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