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Lang, Fritz (1890-1976)

Austrian-born US film director. His films are characterized by a strong sense of fatalism and alienation. His German films include Metropolis (1926) and M (1931), in which Peter Lorre starred as a child-killer. His US films include Rancho Notorious (1952) and The Big Heat (1953).

His expressionist German films betrayed the influence of the French serials in his predilection for international crime subjects. He was also very successful in mythological and science fiction subjects. He left Nazi Germany in 1933 and settled in the USA where he made a number of noteworthy social problem pictures and films noirs, such as Fury (1936) and Scarlet Street (1945). He returned to work in Germany in the late 1950s and featured in Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mépris/Contempt (1963).
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The gallery was filled with thirty-two works comprising hundreds of elements produced by the artist over the last ten years, including numerous small figurative sculptures that variously recalled mummies, nineteenth-century memorial statues, Han warriors, Fritz Lang robots, or grotesque hybrids thereof.
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