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Feb 12, 2016 · Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou’s strangest collaboration. Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou weren’t collaborators so much as co-conspirators: they had one of the strangest, most fruitful partnerships in the history of film, an erotic and artistic alliance that helped the new medium establish an emotional and political grammar. In the course of their […]
Mar 21, 2023 · When Fritz Lang first met Thea von Harbou at Joe May’s film production company in Berlin, she was already a successful and popular author in her own right.
Quick Reference. (1888–1954) German scriptwriter and novelist, born in Tauperlitz; wife of (until 1932) and co‐scriptwriter with the director Fritz Lang. Her novel of the script for Metropolis (1927) illuminates the film. ... From: Von Harbou, Thea in The Oxford Companion to English Literature ». Subjects: Literature.
Sep 16, 2013 · On its premiere in 1927, the movie was 4189 metres (13,823 feet) long, and ran 153 minutes; it was subsequently edited heavily, down to about 3100 to 3200 metres, without the input of husband-and-wife team of director Fritz Lang and scriptwriter Thea von Harbou.
List of works by Thea von Harbou Thea Gabriele von Harbou (27 December 1888 – 1 July 1954) was a German screenwriter, novelist and film director. [1]
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang [4] [5] from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name (which was intentionally written as a treatment ). It stars Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Brigitte Helm. Erich Pommer produced it in the Babelsberg Studio for Universum Film A.G. (UFA). Metropolis is regarded as a pioneering science-fiction film, being among the ...
