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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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