Now I only discovered the film Metropolis in my 30s, by which it was already half a century old, and it is one I still go back too.
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| Maria from Metropolis |
As for the man who made it , I knew little, other than that he was Austrian, fled Nazi Germany and made a heap of superb films both in Germany and the USA.
All of which is an introduction to today's In Our Time on Radio 4.
"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"
Picture; Replica of the character Maria from Metropolis. This image is freely available under the Creative Commons, Attribution-ShareAlike license, Date 8 March 2011, Source Maria from the film Metropolis, on display at the Robot Hall of Fame, Author Jiuguang Wang from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
*Fritz Lang, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0012s94
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