Fritz Lang

AKA:
Friedrich Christian Anton Lang
Nationality:
Austrian
Birthdate:
12/05/1890
Birthplace:
Vienna, Austria
Death Date:
08/02/1976
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biography
"Human Desire" (1954), made during Fritz Lang's last decade as a film director, begins with an emblematic image: a locomotive rushes forward, swift and dynamic, but locked to the tracks, its path fixed, its destination visible. Like Lang's films the train and the tracks speak of a world of narrowly defined choices. The closing image is even more severe: survivor Glenn Ford departs, his locomotive passing a sign on a bridge. Ford does not see the sign, but we do; abbreviated by intervening beams we suddenly see "The world takes" just before the film ends.

This vision of a hostile universe, Continued

milestones
Year
Milestone
1909 
Left home
 
Served with German army during WWI
1916 
Lost vision in right eye; discharged (as lieutenant)
1917 
First filmscripts sold "Die Hochzeit im Exzentrikklub/The Wedding in the Eccentric Club" and "Hilde Warren und der Tod/Hilde Warren and Death"
1917 
Film acting debut (as "Death") in "Hilde Warren und der Tod/Hilde Warren and Death"
Continued