| Spione | |
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| Directed by | Fritz Lang |
| Written by | Thea von Harbou Fritz Lang |
| Produced by | Erich Pommer |
| Starring | Rudolf Klein-Rogge Gerda Maurus Willy Fritsch Georg John Lien Deyers |
| Cinematography | Fritz Arno Wagner |
| Music by | Werner R. Heymann |
| Distributed by | UFA |
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Running time | Original: 178 min. (16 frame/s) Restoration (2003–2004) & DVD: 143 min. |
| Country | Weimar Republic |
| Languages | Silent film German intertitles |
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.[1] The film was Lang's penultimate silent film and the first for his own production company; Fritz Lang-Film GmbH.[2] 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.[3]
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.[2]
- ^ Wagner, Brigitta B. "Profile". Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ^ a b "Spione". DVD Times. Retrieved 6 January 2007.
- ^ Jeavons, Clyde. "Spies (Spione)". London Film Festival. Archived from the original on 29 September 2006. Retrieved 6 January 2007.