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Feb 12, 2016 · Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou’s strangest collaboration. Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou weren’t collaborators so much as co-conspirators: they had one of the strangest, most fruitful partnerships in the history of film, an erotic and artistic alliance that helped the new medium establish an emotional and political grammar. In the course of their […]
Aug 4, 2020 · At the end of the war, Lang mingles with Berlin’s demobilised artists. He soon gravitates toward cinema, newly discovered by dadaism and expressionism, meets Pommer, producer at DECLA (Deutsche Eclair) and works as a reader of scripts. He marries Thea von Harbou, already a well-known writer of thrillers. Together they collaborate on scripts.
Nov 9, 2012 · The film was Lang’s first with the screenwriter Thea von Harbou, who would become his wife and most consistent collaborator. (Both relationships ended when Lang left Germany in 1934.)
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Mar 21, 2023 · When Fritz Lang first met Thea von Harbou at Joe May’s film production company in Berlin, she was already a successful and popular author in her own right. Under contract with Ullstein & Co. publishing house, von Harbou was making the successful transition from writing serialized novels for the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung to writing ...
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Haas, Willy. “Zur Chronik von Grieshuus.” Rev. Film-Kurier(12 Feb. 1925): 1-2. Kaufhold, Enno. Berliner Interieurs, Photographien von Waldemar Titzenthaler.Berlin: Nicolai, 1999. Kracauer, Siegfried. “Spione.” In Kleine Schriften zum Film. vol. 6, no. 2. Ed. Inka Mülder-Bach. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 2004. 62-63. Lang, Fritz. “Mein ideales Manuskr...
A. Archival Filmography: Extant Film Titles: 1. Thea von Harbou as Screenwriter or Screenwriter and Source Author Das wandernde Bild. Dir.: Fritz Lang, sc.: Thea von Harbou (May-Film GmbH Germany 1920) cas.: Mia May, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, si, b&w, 35mm, 6,667 ft. Archive: Cinemateca Brasileira, Deutsche Kinemathek. Kämpfende Herzen/Die Vier um die Fr...
FIAF’s website does not credit Harbou for many of films that she wrote: Das wandernde Bild, Kämpfende Herzen (Die Vier um die Frau),Der müde Tod, Das indische Grabmal I (Die Sendung des Yoghi),Das indische Grabmal II (Der Tiger von Eschnapur),Der brennende Acker,Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler II (Inferno, ein Spiel von Menschen unserer Zeit),Phantom.Die F...
Wagner, Brigitta B. "Thea von Harbou." In Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta, eds. Women Film Pioneers Project. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries, 2013.
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name (which was intentionally written as a treatment). It stars Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Brigitte Helm.
August Scherl. Publication date. 1925. Published in English. 1927. Pages. 273. Metropolis is a 1925 science fiction novel by the German writer Thea von Harbou. The novel was based on the screenplay for Fritz Lang 's 1927 film Metropolis, on which von Harbou and Lang collaborated in 1924.
