It's a dazzling but spine-chilling graphic novel.
It begins as a film by Fritz Lang (1890-1976).
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On September 23, 1920, as dawn broke over Berlin, a woman's heels clicked on the steps of a spiral staircase.
Close-up of a key being inserted into a lock.
Lisa Rosenthal freezes, terrified by what she has just discovered behind the door of this apartment: a couple in full embrace.
Having surprised her husband with Thea von Harbou, the co-screenwriter of his films, Fritz Lang's wife returns to her room in tears.
A shot rang out.
Lisa is found dead from a bullet in the chest, fired by her husband's revolver.
Suicide, dispute, or murder born of a pact between two lovers?
A police investigation is launched.
Fritz Lang will be exonerated, but his work will remain marked by the seal of this guilt and by the ambiguity of this death shrouded in mystery...
With a detailed realistic drawing, supported by coloring…
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