German film essayist Harun Farocki brings his brilliance and compassion to this critical reappreciation of Peter Lorre, the Jewish Hungarian actor who appeared on the Weimar stage in Bertolt Brecht productions and achieved worldwide fame in Fritz Lang’s M, Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man who Knew Too Much, Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca, and John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon, only to be...