Spies (1928)

Original title

Spione

Directed by

Fritz Lang

Genre

drama film, silent film, spy film

Country

Weimar Republic, Germany

Runtime

2h 25m

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 92 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a silent German spy film from 1928. A master criminal plots world domination using espionage and deception. A government agent works to stop him.

suspensefulstylishtenseconspiratorialdramaticcerebralfast-pacednoirish

What happens

Spione (German: [ˈʃpi̯oːnə]; English title: Spies, under which title it was released in the United States) is a 1928 German silent espionage thriller directed by Fritz Lang and co-written with his wife, Thea von Harbou, who also wrote a novel of the same name, published a year later. 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, Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922) and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933), Rudolf Klein-Rogge plays a master criminal aiming for world domination. Spione was restored to something short of its original length by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation during 2003 and 2004. No original negatives survive but a high quality nitrate copy is held at the National Film Archive in Prague. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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