Spione
| Spione | |
|---|---|
| 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. 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 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.