Lang, Fritz

(born Dec. 5, 1890, Vienna, Austria-Hungary—died Aug. 2, 1976, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.) Austrian-born U.S. film director. He studied architecture in Vienna and served in the Austrian army in World War I. While recovering from war wounds, he began to write screenplays. He found work at a movie studio in Berlin, where he later directed successful films such as Between Two Worlds (1921), Dr. Mabuse (1922), the two-part The Nibelungen (1924), the expressionistic Metropolis (1926), and M (1931). After making the anti-Nazi film The Last Will of Dr. Mabuse (1933), he left Germany for Paris and later Hollywood. His U.S. films, which equal his German films in their intensity, pessimism, and visual mastery, include Fury (1936), You Only Live Once (1937), Ministry of Fear (1944), Rancho Notorious (1952), and The Big Heat (1953). Many of his films deal with fate and man's inevitable working out of his destiny.

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(born Dec. 5, 1890, Vienna, Austria-Hungary—died Aug. 2, 1976, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.) Austrian-born U.S. film director. He studied architecture in Vienna and served in the Austrian army in World War I. While recovering from war wounds, he began to write screenplays. He found work at a movie studio in Berlin, where he later directed successful films such as Between Two Worlds (1921), Dr. Mabuse (1922), the two-part The Nibelungen (1924), the expressionistic Metropolis (1926), and M (1931). After making the anti-Nazi film The Last Will of Dr. Mabuse (1933), he left Germany for Paris and later Hollywood. His U.S. films, which equal his German films in their intensity, pessimism, and visual mastery, include Fury (1936), You Only Live Once (1937), Ministry of Fear (1944), Rancho Notorious (1952), and The Big Heat (1953). Many of his films deal with fate and man's inevitable working out of his destiny.

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• Lang (surname)

Places

• Lang, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Lang Park, Brisbane, Australia
• Lang Vei, U.S. Special Forces camp, Vietnam
• Dunmore Lang College
• Eugene Lang College (New York City)
• Lang Island, Sunda Strait, Indonesia
• Lang Island (Antarctica), East Antarctica
• Lang, Austria, a town in the district of Leibnitz in Styria in Austria

Computing

• S-Lang, a programming language created in 1992
• , the core package of the Java programming language
• LANG, environment variable in POSIX standard that sets multiple locale parameters

See also

• Lange, a disambiguation page
• Ronald David Laing, a Scottish psychiatrist
• Laing (food), a creamy and spicy dish
• Lang, on of the Enochian Angels