1922, Lang filmed his second masterpiece, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler. In this 290-minute film, Lang combines the expressionist style scenery with the detective story he is good at. Through the chilling description of a criminal with high IQ, Dr. Mabuse seems a bit odd. OcircMas) and the shadow of Dr. Caligari-such as face changing and hypnosis. , but more reflects the dark side of the real society in Germany at that time. This film established Lang's important position in German films.
1923, German Cosmos Film Co., Ltd. (UFA for short) merged with Dekla Company. With the huge investment of Ufa, Lang filmed the German historical myth epic Die Nibelungen. The film is divided into two episodes-"The Death of Siegfried" and "Krimihild Rachel". The first episode tells the short but great life of Siegfried, the hero, and the second episode tells the story of Princess Hill of Clim's crazy revenge after Siegfried's death. This film has made achievements in modeling and architectural art, including special effects, such as Siegfried's "Fighting the Dragon through the Magical Forest" for his next film.
Since 1924, the German economy has continued to deteriorate. In order to avoid bankruptcy, Ufa signed the "Paiwumi Agreement" with Paramount and MGM. According to this agreement, the United States invested 17 million marks to set up a management organization. At the same time, Germany should send excellent film creators to work in Hollywood. In the same year, Lang visited the United States. After a short stay in new york and Hollywood, Lang returned to Germany.
1925, Lang set out to shoot Metropolis adapted from his wife's novel. This expensive film is one of the most important films in Germany and even the whole silent film era. It tells the story of the struggle in two different stages of a future metropolis. Many scenes and photography techniques of this film have a great influence on this science fiction film, such as the modeling of its female robot. After the film was released, it caused great controversy. Many film critics find it incredible to spend so much money on such a work. Half a year later, Ufa re-edited the film, which was shortened from the original 2 10 minute to14 minute, resulting in the audience never seeing the truly complete film of that year (this film was released in Shanghai, China in 1930s, and translated as "Science World").
1928, Lang set up his own film company, and successively filmed the detective film Spioni and the science fiction film Flawn Immond. Compared with Lang's previous films, the standards of these two works have obviously dropped. It is worth mentioning that in "the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon", the countdown to rocket launch designed by Lang still exists in reality.
1932, Lang filmed his first audio film Black Boy (M). This film is based on the sensational murder of Dü sseldorf, and Long Ben wants to name it M-Eine Stadt sucht einen. But it is said that his producer learned from the Nazi Party that Hitler might win the general election, and Kenlang gave up the title because he was worried that the film might be banned. This film is recognized as Lang's most representative work, with perfect artistic techniques, which perfectly combines characters, voices and symbols, such as the mother's crying, the funeral March gently blown by the murderer, and the balloon symbolizing the dead child. At the same time, cynicism towards the government can be said to be the first of its kind in black humor films. For example, in contrast, meetings of government officials and gatherings organized illegally are perfectly edited together to realize an extremely ingenious fable.
1933, Lang continued to shoot the crime film Dr. Mabuse's Will, which continued the story of Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, which he shot in 1922, and told the story that people were still directing their men to commit crimes with his thoughts after Dr. Mabuse closed the mental hospital. At that time, the German Nazis were in power, and Goebbels, who was in charge of propaganda, banned it. Since then, Lang has made such a statement in the United States, saying that the story of this film describes a crazy robber bribing the director of the insane asylum to take him in, and then hiding in the ward to direct a group of robbers to rob him, with the intention of condemning "Hitler's terrorism, the slogan and dogma of the Third Reich, and the Nazi party's theory of trying to destroy everything that is beneficial to the people", but this explanation afterwards is hard to believe, because the script of this film was written by his wife Dia. In the same year, von Haber divorced Jewish Lang. Lang found that the situation in Germany was sinister at this time and decided to go into exile in France.
1934, Lang in exile in France filmed Liliom, which was adapted from the original work of Hungarian playwright Molnar. This film describes a story of crime due to the pressure of real life, which is also a story of death and redemption. It is said that Lang himself is satisfied with this work, but critics don't think so.
1In the middle of 934, Lang went to the United States, and since then, he has filmed 2 1 works such as Anger in MGM and other companies. However, in the American business environment, Lang's film style can't really be brought into play, and only a few films have his original style. However, critics of the new wave school believe that Lang really showed his artistic talent during the American period, not blindly.
1958, Lang returned to Germany and co-produced a sequel with Joe May, Darth Indish Grabmar and De Tiger von Esna Poole. 196 1, Dr. Mabuse (Die 65438+) who photographed one thousand eyes.
1963, Lang accepted the invitation of French new wave director Jean Luc Godard to play the role of film director in the work Le Mépris.