M (1931) DVD Details

Disc One - The Film:

new

restored high-definition Digital transfer

presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.19:1

Audio commentary by German film scholars Anton Kaes

author of the BFI film classics volume on M

and Eric Rentschler

author of The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife

New and improved English subtitle translation

Plus: a 32-page booklet featuring an essay by film critic Stanley Kauffmann

a 1963 interview with Lang

the script for a missing scene

and contemporaneous newspaper articles

Disc Two - The Supplements:

Conversation with Fritz Lang

a 50-minute film by William Friedkin

Claude Chabrol's M le maudit

a short film inspired by M

plus an interview with Chabrol by Pierre-Henri Gibert about Lang's filmmaking techniques

Classroom tapes of M editor Paul Falkenberg discussing the film and its history

Interview with Harold Nebenzal

the son of M producer Seymour Nebenzal

A physical history of M

Stills gallery

with behind-the-scenes photos

and production sketches by art director Emil Hasler