Fritz Lang

Known for DirectingBorn 1890-12-05Died 1976-08-02 Vienna, Austria

Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German film director, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States. Lang's most famous films are the groundbreaking science-fiction film Metropolis (1927) - the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release - and the influential thriller film M (1931), made before he moved to the United States. Lang's work had a significant influence on the film noir genre and in Hollywood, he made some classics himself, such as Scarlet Street (1945) and The Big Heat (1953).Read more

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Die Rache ist mein

Wolkenbau und Flimmerstern

Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

The Exiles

Film Emigration from Nazi Germany

Lilith and Ly

Die Frau mit den Orchideen

From Caligari to Hitler

Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands

M

Metropolis

The Big Heat

Half-Blood

For Example Fritz Lang

Scarlet Street

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

Conversation with Fritz Lang

Fury

The Woman in the Window

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge

The Mistress of the World, Part VIII: The Revenge of Maud Fergusson

Contempt

Encounter with Fritz Lang

Destiny

Spies

Woman in the Moon

The Film in the Film

You Only Live Once

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

While the City Sleeps

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

Hangmen Also Die!

Ministry of Fear

Paparazzi

Man Hunt

House by the River

Human Desire

Journey to the Lost City

Clash by Night

The Dance of Death

Moonfleet

Bardot et Godard

Rancho Notorious

The Blue Gardenia

Voyage to 'Metropolis'

M the Damned