S4E7: Fritz Lang, early years to 1933

Legendary pioneering film director, original bad boy auteur, visionary…bit of a dick. Fritz Lang’s personal life was almost as dramatic as his films. He’s in Paris for the febrile pre-war days of 1914, showing real acts of bravery on the Galician front. Driving to work at the UFA studios on the days of the Spartacist Uprisings and conveniently dodging Goebbels in 1933.

Not the most reliable narrator, particularly when it comes to his first wife and his departure from Berlin in 1933, but if there were ever a man of his time, it’s Fritz Lang. His work would span the turbulent era from silent to sound, and later from Europe to the US. Obsessive and dictatorial on set, he directed some of the most recognisable films of the Weimar era, Metropolis and M.

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Sources:

Podcasts: In our time: Fritz Lang

You Must Remember This, Karina Longworth

Books: Fritz Lang The Nature of the Beast by Patrick Mcgilligan
Fritz Lang and Goebbels: Myth and Facts by Gösta Werner

Documentary: From Caligari to Hitler