Fritz lang was born and raised in vienna. He enrolled to study architecture when he discovered that he preferred painting. In 19 16, while convalescing in vienna after having received an injury at the eastern front, he met another film director called joe. may who was a fellow astr like lang. After being discharged from the army in august of 19 18, again due to injury, lang met up with a eric pomer, who was a weimer, a film producer, and who owned a production company called dekler. So langden writes several quite cessful script for deklar. Alang was promoted to direct his own script, dispin
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