Fritz Lang filmography
Appearance
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.[2][3] After fleeing from the Nazi regime, Lang directed some of the most important American crime and film noir motion pictures of the studio era, such as The Big Heat (1953).[3] Lang appeared as himself in Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt (Le Mepris, 1963).[2]
Filmography
[edit]Films
[edit]Contributions
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1916 | Die Peitsche | ![]() |
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1917 | Wedding in the Eccentric Club | ![]() |
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Hilde Warren und der Tod | ![]() |
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1918 | Lilith und Ly | ![]() |
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1919 | Revenge Is Mine | ![]() |
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Bettler GmbH | ![]() |
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Wolkenbau und Flimmerstern | ![]() |
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The Woman with Orchids | ![]() |
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The Dance of Death | ![]() |
Lost film | |||
The Plague of Florence | ![]() |
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1920 | The Mistress of the World | ![]() |
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1921 | The Indian Tomb | ![]() |
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1942 | Moontide | ![]() |
Lang left early in shooting, film direction is credited to Archie Mayo | ||
1963 | Contempt | ![]() |
Lang plays himself |
Notes
[edit]- General
- "Fritz Lang > Filmography". Allmovie. Retrieved March 12, 2010.
- McGilligan, Patrick (June 1997). Fritz Lang: the nature of the beast. St. Martin's Press. pp. 483–503. ISBN 0-312-19454-4.
- Eisner, Lotte H (1986). Fritz Lang. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80271-6. Retrieved March 12, 2010.
- Grant, Barry Keith (2007). Film genre: from iconography to ideology. Wallflower Press. ISBN 978-1-904764-79-3. Retrieved March 12, 2010.
- Specific
External links
[edit]- Fritz Lang at IMDb