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Apr 23, 2024 · 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 inevitable working out of their destinies, are considered masterpieces of visual composition and expressionistic suspense.
- Films of The 1950S
Fritz Lang - Film Noir, Expressionism, Metropolis: House by...
- First Films in Hollywood
First films in Hollywood of Fritz Lang. Lang made one film...
- Films of The 1950S
1 day ago · In an interview, Fritz Lang reported that "the film was born from my first sight of the skyscrapers in New York in October 1924". He had visited New York City for the first time and remarked "I looked into the streets—the glaring lights and the tall buildings—and there I conceived Metropolis ," [19] although in actuality Lang and Harbou had ...
- 10 January 1927
- Gottfried Huppertz
- 5.3 million ℛ︁ℳ︁ (estimated) (equivalent to €21 million 2021)
- Erich Pommer
May 2, 2024 · Through film director Fritz Lang, Janowitz and Mayer met with Erich Pommer, head of production at the Decla-Film studio in Weissensee, on 19 April 1919, to discuss selling the script. According to Pommer, he attempted to get rid of them, but they persisted until he agreed to meet with them.
- $4,713
- 26 February 1920 (Germany)
- $12,371
- Decla-Film (later known as Decla-Bioscop AG)
3 days ago · Like The Stranger, Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window (1944) was a production of the independent International Pictures. Lang's follow-up, Scarlet Street (1945), was one of the few classic noirs to be officially censored: filled with erotic innuendo, it was temporarily banned in Milwaukee, Atlanta and New York State.
- United States
- early 1920s – late 1950s
Apr 17, 2024 · Despite the studio executives’ harsh criticism, Lang’s Fury was well-received commercially and critically. English novelist Graham Greene called the film ‘an extraordinary achievement’ whose novel Ministry of Fear (1943) was later adapted into a movie by Fritz Lang. Overall, Fury (92 minutes) may lack the bleak magnificence of Lang’s ...
4 days ago · Granted, the Austrian-born filmmaker behind “Secret,” Fritz Lang (1890-1976), was only nine years older than Hitchock, but, in pop culture terms, a decade might as well be an eternity. Lang could not have helped but notice that his fellow European was making significant inroads on his turf — that is to say, movies canted toward the ...
