Fritz Lang

Directing Dec 5, 1890 Aug 2, 1976 (aged 86) Vienna, Austria

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: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.

Lang's most famous films are the groundbreaking science-fiction film Metropolis (1927) - the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release - and the influential thriller film M (1931), made before he moved to the United States. Lang's work had a significant influence on the film noir genre and in Hollywood, he made some classics himself, such as Scarlet Street (1945) and The Big Heat (1953).

20 Acting Credits

63 Crew Credits

Fritz Lang

Acting

Contempt

From Caligari to Hitler

Paparazzi

Conversation with Fritz Lang

Voyage to 'Metropolis'

Bardot et Godard

The Dinosaur and the Baby

Hilde Warren and Death

Encounter with Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands

For Example Fritz Lang

Master of Love

The Film in the Film

The Exiles

German Film Award

Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film

Fritz Lang

Sibyl

Film Emigration from Nazi Germany

Crew

Metropolis

M

The Big Heat

Scarlet Street

The Woman in the Window

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

Fury

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

Ministry of Fear

You Only Live Once

Destiny

Secret Beyond the Door