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M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder is a movie starring Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, and Inge Landgut. When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.