A series of child murders prompt chaos in Berlin. Citizens accuse and attack each other, claiming to have found the murderer. The police are hampered not only by the false accusations and bad eyewitness testimony, but also by the lack of clues left by the murderer. Even the criminal underworld gets involved, as the constant police searches are hampering their business, and the manage to corner and capture the murderer. They put him on trial, and he is saved by the timely arrival of the police.
This was an interesting movie. Peter Lorre plays the murderer, and while he doesn’t have a huge number of scenes, his monologue at the trial is a tour de force. In fact, most of the actors in the film give outstanding performances, even by today’s standards. There is very little of the random conversations like I felt in the last film, and while some of the camera moves were a bit wobbly, the moves themselves were interesting even if they weren’t expertly and smoothly done.
This is an amazing movie, and I recommend it, even though you have to sit through subtitles.
