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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 […]
Dec 3, 2018 · Lang wrote Spies with his wife and collaborator Thea von Harbou, an early member of the Nazi party whom Lang — whose mother was born Jewish — promptly divorced when he fled Germany in 1933.
- Kelly Vance
(Thea von Harbou, the wife Lang divorced and left behind, was a party member.) In fact the chief villain of “Man Hunt,” a Gestapo officer who calls himself Major Quive-Smith (George Sanders ...
ritz Lang, the Viennese-born film director best known for "M", a terrifying study of a child killer, and for other tales of suspense, died yesterday in Los Angeles at the age of 85. He had been ill for some time, and had been inactive professionally for a decade. The film world of Mr. Lang , whose innovative craftsmanship influenced hundreds of ...
Jun 27, 2019 · Working from a novel by his wife, Thea von Harbou, Lang sought the imprimatur of Hermann Oberth, whose 1923 book, “The Rocket Into Interplanetary Space,” fueled a German craze for spaceflight.
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.)
Jun 25, 2019 · Words: Jonno Hopkins 25th June 2019. While Fritz Lang’s Metropolis is lauded for its vision of the future, it’s the Austrian filmmaker ’ s lesser-known Woman in the Moon (1929) that made far more prescient calls about the future. Written by Lang’s longtime collaborator and then-wife Thea von Harbou, Woman in the Moon follows the story ...
