M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (8/8) - Fritz Lang Film (1931)

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Theodor August Konrad Loos (18 May 1883 in Zwingenberg -- 27 June 1954 in Stuttgart) was a German actor.

The son of a watchmaker and instruments manufacturer, he left secondary school prematurely and worked for three years at an export firm for music instruments in Leipzig, and after that for his uncle, an art dealer in Berlin. He decided though to become an actor.

His theater engagements led him to Leipzig, Danzig and Frankfurt am Main, then to Berlin where he acted from 1912 to 1945 at different theaters. From 1913 he performed in more than 170 feature films, initially silent films. In the 1930s he could be seen performing in classic theater, on over 400 occasions in Peer Gynt alone. After the end of the war, Loos returned to the theater. From August 1949 he was a member of the Staatstheater Stuttgart. His two sons both died in the second world war.

Selected filmography * Die Nibelungen (1924) * Metropolis (1927) * The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci (1930) * M -- Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931) * Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933) * Jud Süß (1940) * Titanic (1943)

Theo Lingen (10 June 1903 -- 10 November 1978), born Franz Theodor Schmitz, was a German film actor, director and screenwriter. He appeared in over 230 films between 1929 and 1978, and directed 21 films between 1936 and 1960.

Lingen was born the son of a lawyer in the city of Hanover, and grew up there. He attended the Royal Goethe Gymnasium -- the predecessor of the Goethe School -- in Hanover, but left before taking the Abitur (final exams). His theatrical talent was discovered during rehearsals for a school performance at the Schauburg boulevard theatre.

Beginning his professional stage career, the young actor adopted as a stage name his middle name together with that of the birthplace of his father, Lingen in the North German Emsland region. As "Theo Lingen" he performed at theatres at Hanover, Halberstadt, Münster and Frankfurt am Main; in plays like The Importance of Being Earnest he very quickly earned a reputation as a superb character comedian, distinguished by his characteristic nasal speech. This distinction followed him when he began appearing in films in 1929, often together with the mumbling Viennese actor Hans Moser, since together they made a contrasting pair. Nevertheless in 1929 he was also invited by Bertold Brecht to the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, where he performed as Macheath in The Threepenny Opera. He also starred in drama films like M and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse directed by Fritz Lang.

In February 1928, Lingen's daughter, Ursula, was born to Bertold Brecht's then wife Marianne Zoff (1893--1984). Brecht and Zoff divorced in September; Lingen and Zoff married later the same year, they also raised Zoff's elder daughter Hanne. Conditions worsened after the Machtergreifung of 30 January 1933: Because Zoff was of Jewish descent, which under the Nazi regime usually resulted in a professional disqualification (Berufsverbot), Lingen thought about going into exile. However because of his great popularity with the general public he was given a special permit by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels to continue to perform and was able to protect his wife from persecution. In 1936 Gustaf Gründgens placed Lingen at the ensemble of the Berlin Prussian State Theatre. He also directed films like Hauptsache glücklich (1941) starring Heinz Rühmann.

In 1944 he moved to Vienna, and in view of the approaching Red Army retired to his cottage at Strobl on the Wolfgangsee shortly afterwards. Here for a few days in May 1945, he acted as de facto mayor, when he managed to disempower the local Nazi authorities and surrendered to the US Army at St. Gilgen. Lingen's measures were followed by the liberation of King Leopold III of Belgium and his wife by the 106th Cavalry Regiment.

After the war he became a naturalised Austrian citizen, and from 1948 worked as a character actor at the Vienna Burgtheater and appeared frequently onstage in Germany, most notably in Carl Sternheim satires directed by Rudolf Noelte. Foremeost however he pursued his film career, performing in numerous comedies of varied quality, in his later days of the 1970s also on television.

Theo Lingen died of cancer in 1978 at the age of 75 in Vienna. The city of Vienna dedicated a grave to him at the Zentralfriedhof. The municipalities of Strobl and Lingen (in 2007) have named squares in his honor.

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danke für den upload

[xxxlgaudi]

danke für den upload

[primummovens]

@thera888 I agree, but in simpler words: the Law cannot prevent crime, no matter how harsh the punishment.

[thera888]

I think you misunderstood the very last line of the movie. It is not an accusation, but a cynical conclusion, stating that, after all, there is no safety, no justice, no evil in life, but the illness and emptyness of the modern human being. This desperate, desillusionated woman represents the nihilistic society of the Weimarer Republic (which was Germany in between the two World Wars), which is what Fritz Lange tried to illustrate.

[mvies77]

At that time.

(Just finishing my comment below.)

[mvies77]

The last line of this film was a great disappointment to an otherwise excellent film. Blame the mother's? They should take some of the responsibility for the murder of their children? I admit that due to the increased, actually, flood of serial killers and pedophiles, mothers have been forced to physically take and pickup their children to school, practice, etc. A single effort among several. All due to the murderer not the mother. Just add this guilt to what any mother would already feel at t