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Fritz Lang filmography. Fritz Lang (1890–1976) was an Austrian film director, producer and screenwriter. In Lang's early career he worked primarily as a screenwriter, finishing film scripts in four to five days. [1] Lang directed major German films of the silent and early sound eras including Metropolis (1927) and M (1931) respectively.
Fritz Lang was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1890. His father managed a construction company. His mother, Pauline Schlesinger, was Jewish but converted to Catholicism when Lang was ten. After high school, he enrolled briefly at the Technische Hochschule Wien and then started to train as a painter. From 1910 to 1914, he traveled in Europe, and he ...
- Director, Writer, Producer
- December 5, 1890
- 2 min
- August 2, 1976
Dec 15, 2022 · Fritz Lang : his 25 Best films. Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae.
Fritz Lang. Friedrich Christian Anton Lang ( German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈkʁɪsti̯an ˈantɔn laŋ]; December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976), better known as Fritz Lang ( [fʁɪt͡s laŋ] ), was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in Germany and later the United States. [2] One of the best-known émigrés from Germany ...
- 1910–1976
- August 2, 1976 (aged 85), Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
- Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922) While it’s impossible to select a single film of Lang’s as representative of such a varied career, the three films that make up his Mabuse trilogy remain landmarks of certain phases.
- Die Nibelungen (1924) Given its more accessible genre framework (and high-profile restoration a few years back), it’s little surprise that Metropolis (1927) would be the silent picture of Lang’s subject to canonical entombment.
- M (1931) Lang’s first talkie, and his crowning achievement, marks the apotheosis of a visual language he’d developed over the course of his silent career.
- Fury (1936) Lang brings M’s kangaroo court stateside for his first American picture, delving further into the mob-ruled grotesqueries of human nature and its thirst for ‘justice’, with the story of an innocent, circumstantially accused man seemingly burned alive by angry townsfolk furious at the slow progress of the judicial system.
Not Rated|90 min| Romance, Thriller. 7.5. Rate. The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government's secret service. Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Willy Fritsch, Lien Deyers.
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German film director, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema ...
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