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Friedrich Christian Anton Lang (Austrian German: [ˈfriːdʁɪç ˈkrɪsti̯a(ː)n ˈantɔn ˈlaŋ]; December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976), better known as Fritz Lang (Austrian German: [frɪts ˈlaŋ]), was an Austrian-born film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in Germany and later the United States. [2]
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.
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (German Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse) is a 1960 black-and-white crime thriller film directed by Fritz Lang in his final film. A West German/French/Italian international co-production, it starred Peter van Eyck, Dawn Addams and Gert Fröbe.
Human Desire is a 1954 American film noir drama starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame and Broderick Crawford directed by Fritz Lang. It is loosely based on Émile Zola's 1890 novel La Bête humaine. The story had been filmed twice before: La Bête humaine (1938), directed by Jean Renoir, and Die Bestie im Menschen, starring Ilka Grüning (1920).
M is a 1931 German mystery thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert, a serial killer who targets children, in his third screen role. Both Lang's first sound film and an early example of a procedural drama, [2] M centers on the efforts of both a city's police force and its criminal syndicates to apprehend a serial child-murderer.
Liliom is a 1934 French fantasy film directed by Fritz Lang based on the 1909 Hungarian stage play of the same title by Ferenc Molnár.The film stars Charles Boyer as Liliom, a carousel barker who is fired from his job after defending the chambermaid Julie (Madeleine Ozeray) from the jealousy of Mme. Muscat, the carousel owner who is infatuated with Liliom.
Spione (German: [ˈʃpi̯oːnə]; English title: Spies, under which title it was released in the United States) is a 1928 German silent espionage thriller directed by Fritz Lang and co-written with his wife, Thea von Harbou, who also wrote a novel of the same name, published a year later. [1]
Fritz Langs Metropolis, Belleville, 2010, ISBN 978-3-923646-21-0 Metropolis, un film de Fritz Lang, Images d'un tournage, France, La Cinematheque Francaise , 1985, ISBN 2-86754-024-0 Metropolis, Ein Filmisches Laboratorium der modernen Architektur , Wolfgang Jacobsen and Werner Sudendorf, Edition Axel Menges, 2000, ISBN 3-930698-85-4