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Feb 12, 2016 · 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.
One of these novels, Die Frau im Mond, happened to be written by Thea von Harbou, Lang’s longtime collaborator and then-wife (the two later separated, after von Harbou decided to throw...
Oct 17, 2013 · Co-written with Thea von Harbou (Lang’s wife at the time, and his collaborator on every film from The Wandering Shadow through the remainder of their marriage, which ended when he left Germany in 1933), Metropolis builds a futuristic world out of familiar parts. Lang dwells on the mechanisms of the modern age, from the look of the skyscrapers ...
Lang (1890-1976) studied art early in life and started drafting screenplays while recuperating from wounds he sustained during World War I. His wife, screenwriter Thea von Harbou, was a collaborator on some of best-known German Expressionist films of the 1920s and early 1930s.
These are Nazis as observed by someone who knew them intimately. (Thea von Harbou, the wife Lang divorced and left behind, was a party member.)
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.
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...
