Fritz Lang
Director
Biography
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
Contempt
as Fritz Lang 1963
From Caligari to Hitler
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) 2015
Paparazzi
as Self 1964
Conversation with Fritz Lang
as Self 1975
Voyage to 'Metropolis'
as Self (archive footage) 2010
Bardot et Godard
as Self 1964
The Dinosaur and the Baby
as Self 1967
Hilde Warren and Death
1917
Encounter with Fritz Lang
as Self - Interviewee 1964
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
as Self (archive footage) 2004
For Example Fritz Lang
1968
Master of Love
1919
The Film in the Film
as Self 1924
Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film
as Self 2017
The Exiles
as Self 1989
Fritz Lang
1990