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Fritz Lang
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: December 5, 1890 in Vienna, Austria Death: August 2, 1976 Biography:While the exact origins of film noir are impossible to pinpoint, no director worked within the genre more consistently or more brilliantly than "Fritz Lang". Bringing to the screen an obsessive and fatalistic world populated by a rogues' gallery of strange and twisted characters, Lang staked out a uniquely hostile corner of the cinematic universe; despair, isolation, helplessness -- all found refuge in the shadows of his work. A product of German Expressionist thought, he explored humanity at its lowest ebb, with a distinctively rich and bold visual sensibility which virtually defined film noir long before the term was even coined.
Born "Friedrich Christian Anton Lang" in Vienna, Austria, on December 5, 1890, he initially studied to become an artist and architect, later serving in the Austrian army during World War I and earning an honorable discharge after being wounded four times. He first entered... Full Biography
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