Fritz Lang – German and American director, screenwriter and producer – was born on December 5, 1890 in Vienna. His father was an architect, and Fritz also began to study architecture at the request of his parents, but soon became interested in painting. In his travels to Asia, North Africa, Russia and China, he earned drawing. With the outbreak of the war, Fritz Lang was drafted into the army as a private and was wounded four times in battle. After losing his right eye, Fritz Lang was demobilized.
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Fritz Lang – German and American director, screenwriter and producer – was born on December 5, 1890 in Vienna. His father was an architect, and Fritz also began to study architecture at the request of his parents, but soon became interested in painting. In his travels to Asia, North Africa, Russia and China, he earned drawing.
With the outbreak of the war, Fritz Lang was drafted into the army as a private and was wounded four times in battle. After losing his right eye, Fritz Lang was demobilized. During his long treatment in hospitals, Fritz Lang became interested in writing scripts and short stories, which were later bought by German film studios.
The debut in cinema for Lang was a film
Half-Blood It was shot in 1919, but was commercially successful with the third Spider.
One of the best works of the early period was Lang's film.
Tired death" (1921), which promoted him to a number of leading German film directors. The main theme of all his films is the struggle of man with the inexorability of fate, so most often the director turns to the genres of drama and thriller. Fascinated by criminal psychology, Fritz Lang makes the film “Dr. Mabuse, the Player” (1922), which tells about the crimes of a maniac who wants to rule the world.
With the coming to power of the Nazis, Lang had to leave Germany and move to France and then to the United States. The commercial orientation of the Hollywood repertoire for a long time went against his own ideas, so at first Lang experienced a creative crisis. Even shooting commercial projects, the director addressed his traditional themes in the films “The Return of Frank James” (1940), “The Ranch of Bad Glory” (1952), “Hunting a Man” (1941), “The Office of Fear” (1944), “The Woman in the Window” (1944),
"Severe heat" (1953)
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As the years went by, Lang found it increasingly difficult to get the upper hand in his disagreements with the producers, so in 1956 he decided not to work in Hollywood anymore. After two adventure films shot in Germany on pre-war scenarios, Fritz Lang shot the last film “A Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse” (1960).
The last years of his life Fritz Lang spent in seclusion in the United States in a mansion on Beverly Hills and died on August 2, 1976.