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 Spiders (film) DVD in 1999 and Blu-ray in 2016. The three year reconstruction was done by film historians David and Kimberly Shepard, with music scored by Gaylord Carter. The source material was a 35mm duplicate negative from Czechoslovakia; the nitrate print had several defects that could not be taken out, was out of sequence and didn't have intertitles. The intertitles were obtained from German censor records. The film was tinted according to instructions by Fritz Lang, who was still living at the time. The Spiders (film) The Spiders () is a German silent serial adventure film written and directed by Fritz Lang.