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Fritz Lang
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).
Filmography
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Contempt
A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Pro...
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
Based on extensive interviews, shot on 16mm in a series of static long takes, Filmemigration aus Nazideutschlan...
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
"The Century of the Theater" - From the "birth of the director" to the "heroes of modernity" - an overview of t...
The Film in the Film
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different perso...
Sibyl
The director delves into the fragments of his own memory, blending images, words, and silences in a film essay...
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, th...
Paparazzi
Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to...
Bardot et Godard
A documentary short following director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of Contempt.
From Caligari to Hitler
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of Weimar is b...
Encounter with Fritz Lang
Interview with Fritz Lang on the roof of Villa Malaparte on Capri during the filming of the fictitious film "Od...
Conversation with Fritz Lang
American director William Friedkin interviewed Austrian director Fritz Lang on February 21st and 24th, 1975. La...
The Exiles
A chronicle of the rescue of oppressed intellectuals and artists from Europe before the outbreak of World War I...
Hilde Warren and Death
Hilde Warren, a famous actress, is impregnated by a convicted murderer and becomes plagued by visions of Death....
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
Fritz Lang
German TV Documentary for WDR about Fritz Lang
Master of Love
Lost film. A man's devotion for a woman brings about his ruin.
Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film
A collaborative essay film regarding Fritz Lang.
Voyage to 'Metropolis'
A documentary about the making of the final version of "Metropolis" by restoring all material from different so...
For Example Fritz Lang
A interview with Fritz Lang where he talks about his career in Germany and troubles with the Nazis.