Fritz Lang

In Our Time: Culture

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4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian-born film director Fritz Lang (1890-1976), who was one of the most celebrated film-makers of the 20th century. He worked first in Weimar Germany, creating a range of films including the startling and subversive Mabuse the Gambler and the iconic but ruinously expensive Metropolis before arguably his masterpiece, M, with both the police and the underworld hunting for a child killer in Berlin, his first film with sound. The rise of the Nazis prompted Lang's move to Hollywood where he developed some of his Weimar themes in memorable and disturbing films such as Fury and The Big Heat.

With

Stella Bruzzi Professor of Film and Dean of Arts and Humanities at University College London

Joe McElhaney Professor of Film Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York

And

Iris Luppa Senior Lecturer in Film Studies in the Division of Film and Media at London South Bank University

Producer: Simon Tillotson

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0:49.7	Hello, Fritz Lang, 1890 to 1976, was one of the most celebrated filmmakers of the last century, working
0:56.5	first in My Germany, then in Hollywood.
0:59.7	Later audiences know him best for Metropolis, a groundbreaking dystopian vision of the silent
1:04.4	era or for crime movies such as the big heat in 1953.
1:09.9	Yet others, such as M, his first film with sound, have been even more influential and with his
1:16.1	earlier silent film Mapusa the gambler, even more disturbing.
1:20.5	We do discuss Ritzlang are Irishupa, senior lecturer in film studies in the Division of Film and Media at London South Bank University.
1:30.0	Joan Mackelhaney, Professor of Film Studies at Hunter College City University of New York,
1:35.8	and Sarah Bruitzi, Professor of Film and Dean of Arts and Humanities at University College
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