Fritz Lang
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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
Lang in 1969
Lang and Thea von Harbou in their Berlin flat, 1923 or 1924
Lang with Gloria Grahame and Broderick Crawford on the set of Human Desire
Hollywood Walk of Fame star
Metropolis (1927 film)
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Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang, based on von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same nam
Fritz Lang
…and his work as a Hollywood director to his last three films made in Germany. Lang's most celebrated films include the futuristic science-fiction film Metropolis (1927) and the influential M (1931), a film noir precursor. His 1929 film Woman in the Moon showcased the use of a multi-stage rocket, and also pioneered…
Theatrical release poster by Heinz Schulz-Neudamm
Set photograph of the Maschinenmensch from Metropolis
Manhattan skyline in 1912
The Tower of Babel in Maria's recounting of the biblical story was modeled after this 1563 painting by Pieter Brueghel.