Fritz Lang
Biography
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).
Movie Appearances
Contempt
as Fritz Lang
1963
From Caligari to Hitler
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2015
For Example Fritz Lang
1968
The Dinosaur and the Baby
as Self
1967
Conversation with Fritz Lang
as Self
1975
Voyage to 'Metropolis'
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Hilde Warren and Death
1917
Master of Love
1919
Paparazzi
as Self
1964
Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film
as Self
2017
Encounter with Fritz Lang
as Self - Interviewee
1964
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
as Self (archive footage)
2004
The Film in the Film
as Self
1924
Bardot et Godard
as Self
1964
The Exiles
as Self
1989
Fritz Lang
1990
Sibyl
as (Archive footage)
2025
