Friedrich Christian Anton Lang (German:[ˈfʁiːdʁɪçˈkʁɪsti̯anˈantɔnlaŋ]; December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976), better known as Fritz Lang ([fʁɪt͡slaŋ]), was an Austrian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in Germany and later the United States.[2] One of the best-known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute.[3] He has been cited as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time.[4]
Lang's most celebrated films include the groundbreaking futuristic science-fiction film Metropolis (1927) and the influential M (1931), a film noir precursor. His 1929 film Woman in the Moon showcased the use of a multi-stage rocket, and also pioneered the concept of a rocket launch pad (a rocket standing upright against a tall building before launch having been slowly rolled into place) and the rocket-launch countdown clock.[5][6]
His other major films include Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922), Die Nibelungen (1924), and after moving to Hollywood in 1934, Fury (1936), You Only Live Once (1937), Hangmen Also Die! (1943), The Woman in the Window (1944), Scarlet Street (1945) and The Big Heat (1953). He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1939.
^Kürten, Jochen (December 4, 2015). "Born 125 years ago: Celebrating the films of Fritz Lang". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
^Obituary Variety, August 4, 1976, p. 63.
^"Fritz Lang: Master of Darkness". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on December 18, 2008. Retrieved January 22, 2009.
^Weide, Robert (Summer 2012). "The Outer Limits". DGA Quarterly. Los Angeles, California: Directors Guild of America, Inc.: 64–71. A gallery of behind-the-scenes shots of movies featuring space travel or aliens. Page 68, photo caption: "Directed by Fritz Lang (third from right), the silent film "Woman in the Moon" (1929) is considered one of the first serious science fiction films and invented the countdown before the launch of a rocket. Many of the basics of space travel were presented to a mass audience for the first time."
Friedrich Christian Anton Lang (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈkʁɪsti̯an ˈantɔn laŋ]; December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976), better known as FritzLang ([fʁɪt͡s laŋ]), was...
FritzLang (1890–1976) was an Austrian film director, producer and screenwriter. In Lang's early career he worked primarily as a screenwriter, finishing...
was based. von Harbou collaborated as a screenwriter with film director FritzLang, her husband, during the period of transition from silent to sound films...
and essays about FritzLang: Armour, Robert A. (1977). FritzLang. Twayne. ISBN 978-0-8057-9259-1. Bogdanovich, Peter (1967). FritzLang in America. Praeger...
a fictional robot featured in Thea von Harbou's novel Metropolis and FritzLang's film adaption of the novel. In the film, she is played by German actress...
Expressionism include Metropolis (1927) and M (1931), both directed by FritzLang. This trend was a reaction against realism. Its practitioners used extreme...
The Big Heat is a 1953 American film noir crime film directed by FritzLang starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Jocelyn Brando about a cop who takes...
executed for war crimes Friedrich Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962), Austrian violinist and composer Friedrich FritzLang (1890–1976), Austrian-German filmmaker...
international sensation in the Weimar Republic–era film M (1931), directed by FritzLang, in which he portrayed a serial killer who preys on little girls. Known...
in Five Graves to Cairo (1943), Alfred Hitchcock in I Confess (1953), FritzLang in The Blue Gardenia (1953), and Cecil B. DeMille in The Ten Commandments...
Scarlet Street is a 1945 American film noir directed by FritzLang. The screenplay concerns two criminals who take advantage of a middle-aged painter in...
Germany with FritzLang who wrote serials like The Mistress of the World (1919) and later directorial efforts like The Spiders (1919). Lang would later...
Bloody Spur, on which the film While the City Sleeps (1956), directed by FritzLang, was based. Einstein's father was the comedian Harry Einstein. He was...
(English: Woman in the Moon) written by Thea von Harbou and directed by FritzLang in an attempt to increase the drama of the launch sequence of the story's...
system 'Katyusha'". ezoteriker. Retrieved 5 June 2022. "The Directors (FritzLang)". Sky Arts. Season 1, episode 6. 2018 Weide, Robert (Summer 2012). "The...
two-part German series of silent fantasy films created by Austrian director FritzLang in 1924, consisting of Die Nibelungen: Siegfried and Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's...
one of the first "serious" science fiction films. It was directed by FritzLang, and written by his wife Thea von Harbou, based on her 1928 novel The...
Like The Stranger, FritzLang's The Woman in the Window (1944) was a production of the independent International Pictures. Lang's follow-up, Scarlet Street...
other hand, may have come from the early silent films of German director FritzLang, including the 1922 film Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, and the 1928 film Spione...
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