Fritz Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton Lang (; December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976), known as Fritz Lang, was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in Germany and later the United States.Obituary ''Variety'', August 4, 1976, p. 6 ...
(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.
[Eisner, 1986. p. 407] Lang directed major German films of the
silent and early
sound eras including ''
Metropolis
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A big ci ...
'' (1927) and ''
M'' (1931) respectively.
[Grant, 2007. p. 71] After fleeing from the
Nazi regime
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
, Lang directed some of the most important American
crime
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and
film noir motion pictures of the studio era, such as ''
The Big Heat
''The Big Heat'' is a 1953 American film noir crime film directed by Fritz Lang starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Jocelyn Brando about a cop who takes on the crime syndicate that controls his city. William P. McGivern's serial in ''The ...
'' (1953).
Lang appeared as himself in
Jean-Luc Godard's ''
Contempt
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The word originated in 1393 in Old French contempt, contemps, ...
'' (''Le Mepris'', 1963).
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Filmography
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