Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast

FILMOGRAPHY

Key: Sc: Screenwriter; Ph: Photography; Art dir: Art Direction. Approximate running time in parentheses. Cast listings are partial. 1917 Die Peitsche (The Whip) Director: Adolf Gartner. (Stuart Webbs-Film Co.) Die Hochzeit im Exzentrikklub (The Wedding in the Eccentric Club) Director: Joe May. Ph: Carl Hoffmann. Cast: Harry Liedtke, Magda Magdaleine, Bruno Kastner, Paul Westermeier, Kathe Haack. (May-Film) Hilde Warren und der Tod (Hilde Warren and Death) Director: Joe May. Ph: Curt Courant. Cast: Mia May, Hans Mierendorff, Bruno Kastner, Georg John. (May-Film) 1918 Lilith und Ly Director: Erich Kober. Cast: Elga Beck, Hans Marschall. (Fiat Film) F I L M O G R A P H Y ASWRITER: 484 FILMOGRAPHY 1919 Die Rache ist mein (Revenge Is Mine) Director: Alwin Neuss. Cast: Otto Paul, Alwin Neuss, Arnold Czempin, Helga Molander, Marta Daghofer (Lil Dagover), Hanni Rheinwald. (Decla) Die Bettler-GmbH (Beggars Ltd.) Director: Alwin Neuss. Cast: Ressel Orla, Fred Selva-Goebel, Fritz Achterberg, Otto Paul, Marta Daghofer (Lil Dagover). (Decla) Wolkenbau und Flimmerstern (Castles in the Sky and Rhinestones) As co-screenwriter (with Wolfgang Geiger). Director: Unknown. Cast: Margarete Frey, Karl Gebhard-Schroder, Albert Paul, Ressel Orla. (Decla) Die Frau mit den Orchideen (The Woman With Orchids) Director: Otto Rippert. Ph: Carl Hoffmann. Cast: Werner Krauss, Carl de Vogt, Gilda Langer. (Decla) Totentanz (Dance of Death) Director: Otto Rippert. Ph: Willy Hameister. Art dir: Hermann Warm. Cast: Sascha Gura, Werner Krauss, Josef Roemer. (Helios-Film) Die Pest in Florenz (Plague in Florence) Director: Otto Rippert. Ph: Willy Hameister. Cast: Theodor Becker, Marga Kierska, Erich Bartels, Juliette Brandt, Erner Hiibsch, Otto Mannstaedt. (Decla) 1920 Die Herrin der Welt (Mistress of the World) Part 8: Die Rache der Maud Ferguson (The Revenge of Maud Ferguson) As co-screenwriter and assistant director. Director: Joe May. Cast: Mia May, Michael Bohnen. (May-Film) 1921 Das indische Grabmal (The Hindu Tomb) Part 1: Die Sendung des Yoghi; Part 2: Das indische Grabmal As co-screenwriter (with Thea von Harbou). Director: Joe May. Ph: Werner Brandes. F I LMOG RAP HY 485 Cast: Mia May, Conrad Veidt, Lya de Putti, Olaf Fonss, Erna Morena, Bernhard Goetzke, Paul Richter. (May-Film) 1919 Halbblut (The Half-Bleed) As screenwriter and director. Ph: Carl Hoffmann. Cast: Ressel Orla, Carl de Vogt, Gilda Langer, Carl Gebhard-Schroder, Paul Morgan. (Decla-Bioscop) "The title Halbblut—literally half-blood, with racist connotations—was always translated as 'The' (masculine) Foreigner,' or more often, 'The' (masc.) Half-breed,' while it is clear that the film is about the 'destiny of woman.' The best translation would be 'The (feminine) Cur Georges Sturm, Fritz Lang—ftlms/textes/references Dei Hen dei Liebe (Master of Love) As director and producer. Sc: Leo Koffler. Ph: Emil Schunemann. Art dir: Carl Ludwig Kirmse. Cast: Carl de Vogt (Disescu), Gilda Langer (Yvette), Erika Unruh. (Helios Film) "The second of Lang's films with no surviving print, Der Herr der Liebe is another story of unhappy love in the mode of a society drama." E. Anne Kaplan, Fritz Lang: A Guide to References and Resources Die Spinnen (The Spiders) Part I: Der goldene See (The Golden Lake) As screenwriter and director. Ph: Emil Schunemann. Art dir: Otto Hunte, Carl Ludwig Kirmse, Hermann Warm, Heinrich Umlauff. Cast: Carl de Vogt (Kay Hoog), Ressel Orla (Lio Sha), Lil Dagover (Sun priestess), Paul Morgan (expert), Georg John (Dr. Telphas), Rudolf [Bruno] Lettinger (Terry Landon), Edgar Pauly (Four-Finger John), Paul Biensfeldt, Friedrich Kiihne, Harry Frank. (Decla-Bioscop, approx. 81 mins.) ". . . impressively staged, combining location shooting with realistic studio interiors designed by Otto Hunte. The decor was often exotic. Notable in this regard was the sequence in the Inca City, a pastiche of temples and statues amidst luxuriant tropical foliage." Frederick Ott, The Films of Fritz Lang Harakiri (Madame Butterfly) As director. Sc: Max Jungk, based on the play Madame Butterfly by John Luther Long and David Belasco. Ph: Max Fassbender. Art dir: Heinrich Umlauff. Cast: Paul Biensfeldt (Daimyo Tokujawa), Lil Dagover (O-Take-San, his ASDIRECTOR 486 FILMOGRAPHY daughter), Georg John (Buddhist monk), Meinhart Maur (Prince Matahari), Rudolf Lettinger (Karan), Erner Hiibsch (Kin-Be-Araki), Kate Kiister (Hanake, O-Take-San's servant), Niels [Nils] Prien (Olaf J. Anderson), Herta Heden (Eva), Harry Frank, Joseph Roemer, Loni Nest (child). (Decla-Bioscop, approx. 108 mins.) "An unimportant minor work ..." Michael Toteberg, Fritz Lang mit Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten 1920 Die Spinnen (The Spiders) Part II: Das Brillantenschiff (The Diamond Ship) As...