Si de mor lang presents himself asas being this kind of anti conventinac director. He was offered the biggest pos in the german film industry, but turned his back on it because he doesn't agree with narsy rule. What is really striking about lang's time in hollywood and which not much gets talked about, is his active engagement in humanitarian activity and causes. Alang is instrumental in securing the financial means for bret to come to hollywood. And he so he doesn't kind of show his antinaty sentiment, not just on screen, but in physically getting involved in trying to get people out of europe and and into america.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian-born film director Fritz Lang (1890-1976), who was one of the most celebrated film-makers of the 20th century. He worked first in Weimar Germany, creating a range of films including the startling and subversive Mabuse the Gambler and the iconic but ruinously expensive Metropolis before arguably his masterpiece, M, with both the police and the underworld hunting for a child killer in Berlin, his first film with sound. The rise of the Nazis prompted Lang's move to Hollywood where he developed some of his Weimar themes in memorable and disturbing films such as Fury and The Big Heat.
With
Stella Bruzzi
Professor of Film and Dean of Arts and Humanities at University College London
Joe McElhaney
Professor of Film Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York
And
Iris Luppa
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies in the Division of Film and Media at London South Bank University
Producer: Simon Tillotson