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He has been cited as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. [4] Lang's most celebrated films include the groundbreaking futuristic science-fiction film Metropolis (1927) and the influential M (1931), a film noir precursor.
- Fritz Lang Filmography
Fritz Lang (1890–1976) was an Austrian film director,...
- Die Nibelungen
Die Nibelungen ("The Nibelungs") is a two-part German series...
- Woman in The Moon
Woman in the Moon (German Frau im Mond) is a German science...
- Metropolis
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction...
- Fritz Lang Filmography
Apr 23, 2024 · Notable Works: “Fury”. “M”. “Metropolis”. “The Big Heat”. “The Half-Caste”. “While the City Sleeps”. Fritz Lang (born December 5, 1890, Vienna, Austria-Hungary—died August 2, 1976, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was an Austrian-born American motion-picture director whose films, dealing with fate and people’s ...
- Michael Barson
May 16, 2024 · Metropolis, German silent film, released in 1927, featuring director Fritz Lang’s vision of a grim futuristic society and containing some of the most impressive images in film history. (Read Lillian Gish’s 1929 Britannica essay on silent film.)
- Lee Pfeiffer
Next (Fritz Perls) Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian - German - American film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer, one of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism.
Apr 19, 2015 · After depicting the contemporary world in Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler and the world of the mythological past in Die Nibelungen, Lang turned with Metropolis to the world of the next century. In this future world, men have built Metropolis, a glittering city reaching to the sky.
Born in Vienna, Fritz Lang moved to Berlin in 1919 to begin a career that would define the emerging art of film. He created indelible images that epitomize Nordic myth ( Nibelungen, 1924), the city of the future ( Metropolis, 1927) and the psychotic criminal ( Dr. Mabuse, 1922; M, 1931).
