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).
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- 2024 · Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit as Himself (archive)
- 2017 · Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film as Self
- 2015 · From Caligari to Hitler as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 2010 · Voyage to 'Metropolis' as Self (archive footage)
- 2009 · Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- 2004 · Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands as Self (archive footage)
- 2002 · Das Jahrhundert des Theaters as Self (archive footage)
- 1990 · Fritz Lang as
- 1989 · The Exiles as Self
- 1975 · Film Emigration from Nazi Germany as Self
- 1975 · Conversation with Fritz Lang as Self
- 1968 · For Example Fritz Lang as
- 1967 · The Dinosaur and the Baby as Self
- 1964 · Paparazzi as Himself
- 1964 · Bardot et Godard as Himself
- 1964 · Encounter with Fritz Lang as Interviewee
- 1963 · Contempt as Fritz Lang
- 1951 · Deutscher Filmpreis as Self
- 1924 · The Film in the Film as Himself
- 1919 · Master of Love as
- 1917 · Hilde Warren and Death as