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    Anton Lang (Austrian German pronunciation: [ˈfriːdʁɪç ˈkrɪsti̯a(ː)n ˈantɔn ˈlaŋ]; December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976), better known as Fritz Lang (pronounced...
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  • Fritz Lang (1890–1976) was an Austrian film director, producer and screenwriter. In Lang's early career he worked primarily as a screenwriter, finishing...
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  • M (1931 film) (redirect from M Fritz Lang)
    directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre in his third screen role as Hans Beckert, a serial killer who targets children. Both Lang's first sound...
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    was based. von Harbou collaborated as a screenwriter with film director Fritz Lang, her husband, during the period of transition from silent to sound films...
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    Metropolis (1927 film) (category Films directed by Fritz Lang)
    science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same...
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  • and essays about Fritz Lang: Armour, Robert A. (1977). Fritz Lang. Twayne. ISBN 978-0-8057-9259-1. Bogdanovich, Peter (1967). Fritz Lang in America. Praeger...
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  • Fritz Lang (15 March 1877 – 26 October 1961), was a German painter, noted for his woodcuts, linocuts, lithographs and book illustrations. Born in Stuttgart...
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    a fictional robot featured in Thea von Harbou's novel Metropolis and Fritz Lang's film adaption of the novel. In the film, she is played by German actress...
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    The Big Heat (category Films directed by Fritz Lang)
    The Big Heat is a 1953 American film noir crime film directed by Fritz Lang starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Jocelyn Brando about a cop who takes...
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  • Contempt (film) (category Fritz Lang)
    Alberto Moravia. It stars Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang, and Giorgia Moll. Paul Javal, a young French playwright who has found...
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    von Harbou. The novel was a treatment for Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis, on which von Harbou and Lang collaborated in 1924. The story is set in a...
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    Expressionism include Metropolis (1927) and M (1931), both directed by Fritz Lang. This trend was a reaction against realism. Its practitioners used extreme...
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    Germany, with Fritz Lang writing serials like The Mistress of the World (1919) and later directing films like The Spiders (1919). Lang would make films...
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  • Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962), Austrian violinist and composer Fritz Julius Kuhn (1896–1951), Nazi who led the German American Bund Friedrich Fritz Lang...
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    international sensation in the Weimar Republic–era film M (1931). Directed by Fritz Lang, Lorre portrayed a serial killer who preys on little girls. Known for...
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    (English: Woman in the Moon) written by Thea von Harbou and directed by Fritz Lang in an attempt to increase the drama of the launch sequence of the story's...
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  • The Indian Tomb (1959 film) (category Films directed by Fritz Lang)
    indische Grabmal) is a 1959 adventure film, co-written and directed by Fritz Lang. Produced by Artur Brauner, it is an international co-production of West...
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  • The Woman in the Window (1944 film) (category Films directed by Fritz Lang)
    The Woman in the Window is a 1944 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang and starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, and Dan Duryea...
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  • 1951 American film noir directed by Joseph Losey. It is a remake of Fritz Lang's 1931 German film of the same title about a child murderer. This version...
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    made famous by three films about the character directed in Germany by Fritz Lang: Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (silent, 1922), The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)...
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  • The Blue Gardenia (category Films directed by Fritz Lang)
    noir starring Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, and Ann Sothern. Directed by Fritz Lang from a screenplay by Charles Hoffman, it is based on the novella The Gardenia...
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    Directed by Fritz Lang, M starred Peter Lorre as a fictional child killer named Hans Beckert. In addition to drawing inspiration from the case of Fritz Haarmann...
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  • Scarlet Street (category Films directed by Fritz Lang)
    Scarlet Street is a 1945 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang. The screenplay concerns two criminals who take advantage of a middle-aged painter in...
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  • The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (category Films directed by Fritz Lang)
    directed by Fritz Lang. The movie is a sequel to Lang's silent film Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922) and features many cast and crew members from Lang's previous...
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    While the City Sleeps (1956 film) (category Films directed by Fritz Lang)
    While the City Sleeps is a 1956 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang and starring Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Howard Duff, Thomas...
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  • You Only Live Once (1937 film) (category Films directed by Fritz Lang)
    directed by Fritz Lang and starring Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda. Considered an early film noir, the film was the second directed by Lang in the United...
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  • Human Desire (category Films directed by Fritz Lang)
    starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame and Broderick Crawford directed by Fritz Lang. It is loosely based on Émile Zola's 1890 novel La Bête humaine. The story...
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    Like The Stranger, Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window (1944) was a production of the independent International Pictures. Lang's follow-up, Scarlet Street...
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  • the Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill musical. He also collaborated with Fritz Lang on four films, Destiny (1921), Spies (1928), M (1931) and The Testament...
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    remembered for her dual role as Maria and her double named Futura, in Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film, Metropolis. Brigitte Gisela Eva Schittenhelm was born...
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