Friedrich Christian Anton Lang was an Austrian-German-American film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer, one of the best known "émigrés" from Germany's school of expressionism. His most famous films are the groundbreaking "Metropolis" (the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release) and "M", made before he moved to the United States. Wikipedia
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LANG, FRITZ Fritz Lang (Dec. 5, 1890 - Aug. 2, 1976), Austrian-American film director, was born in Vienna, the son of an architect, Anton Lang, and Paula Schlesinger Lang. www.jscheuer.com/lang.htm
Fritz Lang grew up in fin de sicle Vienna, during the Golden Autumn of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and he carried its intellectual and artistic heritage with him for the rest of his days. www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/lang.html
I said if you think they could confiscate a picture of Fritz Lang in Germany then do it, and they did. zakka.dk/euroscreenwriters/interviews/fritz_lang_521.htm
Alfred Hitchcock (the director of Psycho) was a disciple of Lang as were Jacques Tourneur (The Leopard Man (1943)) and Michael Powell (Peeping Tom (1960)). www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype%3Amovies%20AND...