“They were wonderfully dressed, and you met secretly in a cafe. You set up an evening rendezvous during the intermission of a play, or met `coincidentally”
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Fritz Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton Lang, better known as Fritz Lang, was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked in Germany and later the United States. One of the best-known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. He has been cited as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time.
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entertainment · Austrian filmmaker (1890–1976) · film director · screenwriter · actor · film editor · film actor · film producer · director · writer · producer · film screenwriter · also Fritz Lang, Friedrich Christian Anton Lang, Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang, Fritz Lang (1890–1976), Lang
Born 5 December 1890 · Died 2 August 1976 · Q19504
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2026· 6 entries
“devoured but somewhat without appetite.”
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“I am an eye man, not an ear man.”
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“There were the most lovely things there: many colored ornaments, balls and stars and silver festoons and baked apples and yellow-gold oranges and dates and dried Malaga grapes and gingerbread, toys and play horses and Punch and Judy shows. Tin soldiers and dragons and the Vienna military band and the candy house from Hansel and Gretel, with the witch of course flying out of the chimney in all her ugliness.”
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“They all carry the indispensable fat umbrella and wear gaudy-colored, wide-skirted native costumes, hair tucked in under big fringed kerchiefs.”
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“How did this film get to be called a classic?”
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2023· 1 entry
bleedingcool: Fritz Lang's Metropolis To Be A Comic, But What About The Copyright?
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2017· 2 entries
The Guardian: The Big Heat review – Fritz Lang's 1953 thriller retains its shocking power
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The Guardian: Destiny review – Fritz Lang's amazing dream of longing and fear
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2015· 1 entry
The Guardian: Metropolis review – Philip French on Fritz Lang’s visionary epic
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2014· 5 entries
The Guardian: Spione review – Philip French on Fritz Lang’s groundbreaking spy thriller
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The Guardian: Woman in the Moon – Philip French on Fritz Lang’s restored moon-mission yarn
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The Guardian: M review – Fritz Lang's superb thriller fascinates
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The Guardian: Why Fritz Lang's M is the one film you should watch this week – video
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IndieWire: Attention, Filmmakers: Learn How to Create Fritz Lang’s ‘Beam of Light’ Effect from ‘Metropolis’
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2010· 1 entry
The Film Stage: Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ Newly Restored and Streaming?
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2009· 1 entry
"may be the best" of the "many interventionist films produced by the Hollywood studios before Pearl Harbor" as it is "clean and concentrated, elegant and precise, pointed without being preachy
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1976· 4 entries
And was interred in the Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles
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Died 1976-08-02.
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Awarded The Life Career Award (1976).
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“My private life has nothing to do with my films.”
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1971· 1 entry
Honorary Professor of Fine Arts by the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1973
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1965· 1 entry
Plaque from El Festival Internacional del Cine de San Sebastian in 1970
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1963· 1 entry
Appeared as himself in Jean-Luc Godard's film Contempt
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1960· 1 entry
Lang received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion picture industry, located at 1600 Vine Street
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1945· 1 entry
“but I find much of it interesting too.”
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1934· 1 entry
Fury (1936), You Only Live Once (1937), Hangmen Also Die
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1933· 1 entry
Four months after his meeting with Goebbels and his initial departure
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1931· 2 entries
Independent producer Seymour Nebenzahl hired Lang to direct M for Nero-Film
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For his film M, by the German Motion Picture Arts Association
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1920· 2 entries
The shot deemed to have been fired from Lang's World War I Browning revolver
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Lang met his future second wife, the writer Thea von Harbou through director Joe May
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1910· 1 entry
To travel throughout Europe and Africa, later Asia and the Pacific area
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1890· 1 entry
Born 1890-12-05.
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