Fritz Lang filmography

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

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Films

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Year Film Functioned as Notes
Director Producer Writer Actor
1919 Halbblut     silent lost film
Master of Love    
The Spiders – Part 1: The Golden Sea     silent
Harakiri  
1920 The Spiders – Part 2: The Diamond Ship    
The Wandering Image    
1921 Four Around a Woman    
Destiny    
1922 Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler – Part 1: The Great Gambler    
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler – Part 2: Inferno    
1924 Die Nibelungen – Part 1: Siegfried    
Die Nibelungen – Part 2: Kriemhild's Revenge  
1927 Metropolis    
1928 Spies      
1929 Woman in the Moon    
1931 M  
1933 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse    
1934 Liliom    
1936 Fury    
1937 You Only Live Once  
1938 You and Me    
1940 The Return of Frank James  
1941 Western Union  
Man Hunt  
1943 Hangmen Also Die!      
1944 Ministry of Fear  
The Woman in the Window  
1945 Scarlet Street    
1946 Cloak and Dagger  
1947 Secret Beyond the Door    
1950 House by the River  
American Guerrilla in the Philippines  
1952 Rancho Notorious  
Clash by Night  
1953 The Blue Gardenia  
The Big Heat  
1954 Human Desire  
1955 Moonfleet  
1956 While the City Sleeps  
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt  
1959 The Tiger of Eschnapur    
The Indian Tomb    
1960 The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse    

Contributions

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Year Film Functioned as Notes
Writer Actor Other
1916 Die Peitsche [de]  
1917 Wedding in the Eccentric Club  
Hilde Warren und der Tod  
1918 Lilith und Ly  
1919 Revenge Is Mine  
Bettler GmbH  
Wolkenbau und Flimmerstern  
The Woman with Orchids  
The Dance of Death   Lost film
The Plague of Florence  
1920 The Mistress of the World  
1921 The Indian Tomb  
1942 Moontide   Lang left early in shooting, film direction is credited to Archie Mayo
1963 Contempt   Lang plays himself

Notes

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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
  1. ^ Eisner, 1986. p. 407
  2. ^ a b Ankeny, Jason. "Fritz Lang > Biography – Allmovie". Allmovie. Retrieved March 12, 2010.
  3. ^ a b Grant, 2007. p. 71
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