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Fritz Lang

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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).

05-12-1890

Birthday

Sagittarius

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18

Total Films

프리츠 랑, 프리츠 랭, Фріц Ланг

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Vienna, Austria

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

18 Works

producer

7 Works

director

92 Works

writer

38 Works

other

3 Works

Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film

Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film

A collaborative essay film regarding Fritz Lang.
0.0

Year:

2017

From Caligari to Hitler

From Caligari to Hitler

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of Weimar is born, to 1933, when the Nazis come into power. (Followed by Hitler's Hollywood, 2017.)
7.4

Year:

2015

Voyage to 'Metropolis'

Voyage to 'Metropolis'

A documentary about the making of the final version of "Metropolis" by restoring all material from different sources.
5.9

Year:

2010

Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood

Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood

Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-overs, archival footage, and film clips to examine Berlin's vital filmmaking in the 1920s; then it follows a producer, directors, composers, editors, writers, and actors to Hollywood: some succeeded and many found no work. Among those profiled are Erich Pommer, Joseph May, Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, and Peter Lorre. Once in Hollywood, these exiles helped each other, housed new arrivals, and raised money so others could escape. Some worked on anti-Nazi films, like Casablanca. The themes and lighting of German Expressionism gave rise in Hollywood to film noir.
6.0

Year:

2009

Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang

German TV Documentary for WDR about Fritz Lang
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1990

The Exiles

The Exiles

A chronicle of the rescue of oppressed intellectuals and artists from Europe before the outbreak of World War II. It studies the cultural and intellectual impact of this emigre population on American life.
0.0

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1989

Conversation with Fritz Lang

Conversation with Fritz Lang

American director William Friedkin interviewed Austrian director Fritz Lang on February 21st and 24th, 1975. Lang died August 2nd, 1976.
7.0

Year:

1975

For Example Fritz Lang

For Example Fritz Lang

A interview with Fritz Lang where he talks about his career in Germany and troubles with the Nazis.
7.0

Year:

1968

The Dinosaur and the Baby

The Dinosaur and the Baby

An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of art forms, the role of the cinema, their collaboration together, and much more. (Filmed in 1964 but released for TV in 1967.)
6.0

Year:

1967

Paparazzi

Paparazzi

Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (Contempt). Through video footage of Bardot, interviews with the paparazzi, and still photos of Bardot from magazine covers and elsewhere, director Rozier investigates some of the ramifications of international movie stardom, specifically the loss of privacy to the paparazzi. The film explains the shooting of the film on the island of Capri, and the photographers' valiant, even foolishly dangerous, attempts to get a photograph of Bardot.
6.8

Year:

1964

Bardot et Godard

Bardot et Godard

A documentary short following director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of Contempt.
6.1

Year:

1964

Encounter with Fritz Lang

Encounter with Fritz Lang

Interview with Fritz Lang on the roof of Villa Malaparte on Capri during the filming of the fictitious film "Odysseus" and the filming of "Contempt" by Jean-Luc Godard, in which Fritz Lang plays the role of an old film director. During the interview, excerpts from the Lang films "The Nibelungen", "The Tired Death" and "M" are shown.
6.0

Year:

1964

Contempt

Contempt

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.
7.1

Year:

1963

The Film in the Film

The Film in the Film

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.A. Dupont.
7.5

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1924

Master of Love

Master of Love

A man's devotion for a woman brings about his ruin.
3.0

Year:

1919

Hilde Warren and Death

Hilde Warren and Death

Hilde Warren, a famous actress, is impregnated by a convicted murderer and becomes plagued by visions of Death. Upon discovering her child is the image of its criminal father, Hilde must decide whether to allow it to live, or to kill it and risk the embrace of Death himself.
5.9

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1917