Film Screening
Fritz Lang

Feature Film

Wed, 28.06.2023
6:00 PM Terenure Library

Wednesday, 28 June 2023 | 6pm
Terenure Library, Templeogue Road, Dublin 6W

Director: Gordian Maugg, b/w, 104 min, 2016
German with English subtitles 
Suitable for audiences 12+

Germany, 1930. Director Fritz Lang has created silent film masterpieces with the Nibelungen films and Metropolis. Now he wants to make his first talkie and is looking for a suitable story. Unlike his silent films, Lang wants to tell a realistic, contemporary story this time. He travels from Berlin to Düsseldorf to be inspired by the investigations into the well-known criminal adviser Gennat, who is currently following the case of the notorious serial killer Peter Kürten, also called the "Vampire of Düsseldorf". From this case, Lang gradually conceived the story which later became his masterpiece, M - Eine Stadt sucht ein Mörder later emerged. At the same time, the director is confronted with the abysses of his own soul during the development of the film material.

Presented by Terenure Library and the Goethe-Institut Irland