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Fritz Lang

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Austrian-German-American film director (1890-1976) whose expressionist silent films, including Metropolis and M, and later American film noir work made him one of the most influential directors of the twentieth century.

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One of the best-known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute.
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M is a 1931 German mystery thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert, a serial killer who targets children, in his third screen role.
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