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M Commentary

M • 1h 49m

Recorded in 2004, this commentary features University of California at Berkeley professor Anton Kaes, author of the BFI Film Classics volume on M, and Harvard University professor of German Eric Rentschler, author of “The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife.”

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