---
title: 'Spies (1928)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Fritz Lang'
released: '1928-03-22'
runtime_minutes: 145
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'Weimar Republic'
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/spies-1928'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019415/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Spies (1928)

1928 · 145 min · Drama, Thriller · Weimar Republic, Germany

Original title: Spione

## Synopsis

Spione 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Fritz Lang](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-lang)
- **Screenplay:** [Fritz Lang](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-lang), [Thea von Harbou](https://cinepixo.com/people/thea-von-harbou)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Werner R. Heymann](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-r-heymann)
- **Producer:** [Erich Pommer](https://cinepixo.com/people/erich-pommer)
- **Director of Photography:** [Fritz Arno Wagner](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-arno-wagner)

## Cast

- [Theodor Loos](https://cinepixo.com/people/theodor-loos)
- [Louis Ralph](https://cinepixo.com/people/louis-ralph)
- [Rudolf Klein-Rogge](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolf-klein-rogge)
- [Fritz Rasp](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-rasp)
- [Klaus Pohl](https://cinepixo.com/people/klaus-pohl-2)
- [Craighall Sherry](https://cinepixo.com/people/craighall-sherry)
- [Paul Hörbiger](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-horbiger)
- [Hermann Vallentin](https://cinepixo.com/people/hermann-vallentin)
- [Lien Deyers](https://cinepixo.com/people/lien-deyers)
- [Paul Rehkopf](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-rehkopf)
- [Heinrich Gotho](https://cinepixo.com/people/heinrich-gotho)
- [Georg John](https://cinepixo.com/people/georg-john)
- [Gerda Maurus](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerda-maurus)
- [Grete Berger](https://cinepixo.com/people/grete-berger)
- [Hertha von Walther](https://cinepixo.com/people/hertha-von-walther)

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