Fritz Lang - Spione (Spies), 1928. P5

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Spione

Directed by Fritz Lang
Produced by Erich Pommer
Written by Fritz Lang
Thea von Harbou
Starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Gerda Maurus
Willy Fritsch
Georg John
Music by Werner R. Heymann
Cinematography Fritz Arno Wagner
Release date(s) March 22, 1928
Running time 178 min. (16 frame/s)
Country Germany
Language Silent film
German intertitles

Spione (English title: Spies, under which title it was released in the United States) is a German silent espionage thriller written and directed by Fritz Lang in 1928. Lang's wife, Thea von Harbou, worked as a co-writer. The film was Lang's penultimate silent film, and the first for his own production company; Fritz Lang-film GmbH. As in Lang's Mabuse films, such as Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Rudolf Klein-Rogge plays a master criminal aiming for world domination.

Spione was restored to its original length by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung during 2003 and 2004. No original negatives survive, but a high quality nitrate copy is held at the Národni Filmovy Archiv at Prague.

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Film & Animation

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• fritz
• lang
• spione
• spies
• 1928