German expressionist cinema was a part of several related creative movements in Germany in the early 20th century that reached a peak in Berlin during the 1920s. These developments were part of a larg
A still of the distorted set design from the 1920 silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Paul Wegener as The Student of Prague in a 1913 poster
A poster for the 1920 silent film The Golem: How He Came into the World, starring and co-directed by Paul Wegener and Carl Boese
A still of Max Schreck in the 1922 silent film Nosferatu
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
Grave of Lang, at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills