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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 : his 25 Best films. by cafg-0 • Created 12 years ago • Modified 1 year ago. German director who had ability for different genres. One of the greatest.
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- 'Metropolis' (1927) For as good as M is, there's another Fritz Lang classic that starts with "M" and is somehow even better: 1927's Metropolis. This is essentially the sci-fi movie of the silent era, and one of the most important within the genre's history, telling an epic and emotional story about a futuristic city that's a utopia for the rich and a living nightmare for the poor, leading to the latter starting a revolution so they can overthrow those who benefit from their misery.
- 'M' (1931) M was Fritz Lang's first movie since the silent film Woman in the Moon, and any doubts surrounding whether the director could sufficiently transition into making talkies were immediately dispelled by this film.
- 'The Testament of Dr. Mabuse' (1933) A sequel to his 1922 crime epic, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse is a leaner, more efficient, and arguably better follow-up to what was already a classic.
- 'Scarlet Street' (1945) When it comes to picking the best English-language movie of Fritz Lang's career, it's fairly easy to single out the excellent Scarlet Street as a Hollywood highlight.
Lang's most celebrated films include the groundbreaking futuristic science-fiction film Metropolis (1927) and the influential M (1931), a film noir precursor.
Play trailer 1:59. From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses (2014) 5 Videos. 17 Photos. 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.
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Dec 4, 2015 · He was born before sci-fi films, serial killer movies and film noir were invented. He’d help invent them all. Fritz Lang was one of the giants of cinema, and these 10 films find him at the top of his game.
While the exact origins of film noir are impossible to pinpoint, no director worked within the genre more consistently or more brilliantly than Fritz Lang. Bringing to the screen an obsessive and fatalistic world populated by a rogues' gallery of strange and twisted characters, Lang staked out a uniquely hostile corner of the cinematic universe ...
