Fritz Lang

Born December 5, 1890, Vienna, Austria-Hungary

Died August 2, 1976, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

He was determined to carry his secrets to the grave. The true story of his life, he believed, was nobody’s
business. It was irrelevant, according to his point of view. Irrelevant to his vast audience of moviegoers,
though they might be fascinated by the bigger-than-life figure who directed with such mesmerizing
force some fifty motion pictures over the span of forty-five years.

His productions highlight the negative potential of instrumental rationality, showing how it causes
confusion, brings abstraction, erodes memory, and destroys transcendence, putting the visual and
formal possibilities of modern media on impressive display while at the same time providing a virulent
critique of the deformative potential of these agencies, including cinema itself.

Secondary resource:

https://iffr.com/en/persons/fritz-lang

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/fritz-lang-10-essential-films

https://academic.oup.com/screen/article-abstract/10/6/103/1625465

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236816748_The_Films_of_Fritz_Lang_Allegories_of_Visio
n_and_Modernity_review

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt5hjjmt

Films:

A Gardênia Azul (1953)