About this episode

This episode explores the early years of film director Fritz Lang, highlighting his dramatic personal life and career up to 1933.

Legendary pioneering film director, original bad boy auteur, visionary…bit of a dick. Fritz Lang’s personal life was almost as dramatic as his films. He’s in Paris for the febrile pre-war days of 1914, showing real acts of bravery on the Galician front. Driving to work at the UFA studios on the days of the Spartacist Uprisings and conveniently dodging Goebbels in 1933. Not the most reliable narrator, particularly when it comes to his first wife and his departure from Berlin in 1933, but if t...

People in this episode

Hosts: Pip Roper, Jonny Whitlam

Topics covered

• Fritz Lang
• film history
• German cinema
• World War I
• Weimar Republic
• auteur theory

Keywords

• Fritz Lang
• film director
• UFA
• Spartacist Uprisings
• Goebbels
• 1914
• 1933
• German cinema
• auteur

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UFA

Places: Paris

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