The Shadow's Edge
2025 · Action · Crime
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Film / 1931
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Directed by
Fritz Lang
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
The story
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
Cast
Peter LorreHans Beckert
Ellen WidmannFrau Beckmann
Inge LandgutElsie Beckmann
Otto WernickeInspector Karl Lohmann
Theodor LoosInspector Groeber
Gustaf GründgensSchränker
Friedrich GnaßFranz
Fritz OdemarThe Cheater
Paul KempPickpocket with Six Watches
Theo LingenBauernfänger
Rudolf BlümnerBecker's 'Attorney'
Georg JohnBlind Panhandler
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Franz SteinMinister
Ernst Stahl-NachbaurPolice Chief
Gerhard BienertCriminal Secretary
Karl PlatenDamowitz
Rosa ValettiBartender
Hertha von WaltherProstitute
Lucie RhodenSecretary in the Police Archives
Joseph Almas(uncredited)
Carl BallhausLeeser, Man Who Marks Hans Beckert (uncredited)
Hans Behal(uncredited)
Paul BiensfeldtMan Suspected in Street (uncredited)
Behal Carrell(uncredited)
Josef Dahmen(uncredited)
Hugo Döblin(uncredited)
J.A. Eckhoff(uncredited)
Else EhserWoman (uncredited)
Karl Elzer(uncredited)
Erwin Faber(uncredited)
Ilse Fürstenberg(uncredited)
Anna GoltzWoman (uncredited)
Heinrich Gotho(uncredited)
Heinrich GretlerMan (uncredited)
Günther Hadank(uncredited)
Robert Hartberg(uncredited)
Ernst Paul Hempel(uncredited)
Oskar Höcker(uncredited)
Albert Hörrmann(uncredited)
Ellen IsentaWoman (uncredited)
Karl Junge-SwinburneMan (uncredited)
Albert Karchow(uncredited)
Werner Kepich(uncredited)
Hermann Krehan(uncredited)
Kurth Leeser(uncredited)
Rose Lichtenstein(uncredited)
Lotte LoebingerWoman (uncredited)
Sigurd Lohde(uncredited)
Alfred LorettoMan (uncredited)
Hanna MaronGirl in Circle at the Beginning (uncredited)
Max Maschek(uncredited)
Paul MederowPublic Prosecutor (uncredited)
Margarete Melzer(uncredited)
Trude Moos(uncredited)
Hadrian Maria NettoPolice Captain (uncredited)
Neumann-SchülerBit Role (uncredited)
Günter NeumannMan (uncredited)
Katharina NiedWoman (uncredited)
Maya Norden(uncredited)
Fred NurneyMan (uncredited)
Edgar PaulyMan (uncredited)
Klaus PohlWitness / One-Eyed Man (uncredited)
Franz Poland(uncredited)
Eduard RebaneMan (uncredited)
Paul Rehkopf(uncredited)
Bertold ReissigMan (uncredited)
Ernst RhadenMan (uncredited)
Hans Ritter(uncredited)
Max SablotzkiMan (uncredited)
Alexander Sascha(uncredited)
Agnes Schulz-Lichterfeld(uncredited)
Leonard SteckelMan (uncredited)
Karl-Heinz Stroux(uncredited)
Wolf Trutz(uncredited)
Otto Waldis(uncredited)
Borwin Walth(uncredited)
Rolf WankaMan (uncredited)
Ernst Wulf(uncredited)
Bruno Ziener(uncredited)
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