Fritz Lang filmography out his remaining years. Fritz Lang filmography Fritz Lang (1890–1976) was an Austrian film director, producer and screenwriter. In Lang's early career he worked primarily as a screenwriter, finishing film scripts in four to five days. Lang went on to direct popular films of the silent era including "Metropolis" and one of the first important German sound films, "M". Lang went on to direct some of the most important crime and film noir film of the American studio era, such as "The Big Heat". Lang's final film work was an acting role as himself in Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt". Lang returned
The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959 film) The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959 film) The Tiger of Eschnapur, or in original German, "Der Tiger von Eschnapur", is a 1959 West German-French-Italian adventure film directed by Fritz Lang. It is the first of two films comprising what has come to be known as "Fritz Lang's Indian Epic"; the other is "The Indian Tomb" "(Das Indische Grabmal"). Fritz Lang returned to Germany to direct these films, which together tell the story of a German architect, the Indian maharaja for whom he is supposed to build schools and hospitals, and the Eurasian dancer who comes between them. Lang's Indian epic is