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 Mépris, 1963).[2]
Filmography
Films
Contributions
| Year | Film | Functioned as | Notes | ||
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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 |
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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 |
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Lang left early in shooting, film direction is credited to Archie Mayo | ||
| 1963 | Contempt |
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Lang plays himself | ||
Notes
- 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
- Fritz Lang at IMDb