Spione

Spione [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
Directed byFritz Lang
Written byThea von Harbou
Fritz Lang
Produced byErich Pommer
StarringRudolf Klein-Rogge
Gerda Maurus
Willy Fritsch
Georg John
Lien Deyers
CinematographyFritz Arno Wagner
Music byWerner R. Heymann
Distributed byUFA
Release date
  • 22 March 1928 (1928-03-22)
Running time
Original: 178 min. (16 frame/s)
Restoration (2003–2004) & DVD: 143 min.
CountryWeimar Republic
LanguagesSilent film
German intertitles

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.

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