poster · metropolis (1927)
Film · 1927
Metropolis
Germany · Science fiction, Drama
Director · Screenwriter
Fritz Lang
Austria · United StatesACTIVE 1919–1960
Fritz Lang
- Born
- 5 December 1890 · Vienna, Austria
- Died
- 2 August 1976 · Beverly Hills, USA
- Nationality
- Austria · United States
- Professions
- Director, Screenwriter
- Active
- 1919–1960
An architect by training and by temperament, Lang built cities, conspiracies and implacable destinies within German expressionism — Metropolis and M are pillars of everything that followed.
Fleeing Nazism, he rebuilt his career in Hollywood as a master of noir, always returning to the same subject: the individual crushed by systems beyond their control.
Career
- 1919–1933
- The German period: Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis and M.
- 1936–1960
- The American period: Fury, You Only Live Once and the great noirs.
Key works
Recommendations · Physical media and books
Where to find it — Fritz Lang
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Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast — biographyBook · In English
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