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Fritz Lang / 2017 Autumn Showcase
TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE DIRECTLY AT THE GOETHE-INSTITUT AUDITORIUM. CASH ONLY PLEASE.
FRITZ LANG
Sat., Nov. 11, 2017 at 6:00 PM
Goethe Institut San Francisco (street entry)
104 mins. Germany (2016). Digital Projection. German w/ English subtitles.
Original and inventive on every level, this luridly enticing narrative is not your average reality-based biopic. Director Gordian Mauggs story about the legendary filmmaker attempts to make sense on a level other than that of the real world. Dont believe any of the facts depicted, just look at the emotional truth behind the tales of the filmmaker with the outsize personality and the arch monocle. Fritz Lang attempts to show the toast of Berlin in a moment of self-doubt, moved from his big budget epic extravaganzas of the 1920s, like the Dr. Mabuse films, the Niebelungen films and Metropolis, to films that examined a single person. That pivotal film was M, the birth of film noir, an unprecedented psychological dissection of a depraved child murderer. Was M an oblique critique of Weimar Germany or a daring experiment that began cinemas fascination with the cruelty and darkness lurking in the human psyche? Lang, forever tagged in Germany as a Jew because his mother was born a Jew, divorced his Nazi-convert wife and screenwriter Thea von Harbou and fled to the United States in 1934. His filmic output thereafter was grade-A noir. The moment when he went from epic mythology to the empty darkness of perversion, is a moment to be fully considered. Miguel Pendas, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Director: Gordian Maugg
Starring: Heino Ferch, Thomas Thieme, Samuel Finzi, Johanna Gastdorf, Lisa Charlotte Friederich
Screenplay: Gordian Maugg, Alexander Häusser
Cinematography: Lutz Reitemeier
Editor: Florentine Bruck
Producer: Nicole Ringhut
World Sales: Wide House, Paris
**THIS EVENT HAS A STRICT REFUND POLICY. No refunds will be processed by Brown Paper Tickets more than 12 hours after the time of purchase.**
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LocationGoethe Institut San Francisco (View)
530 Bush Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
United States
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| Minimum Age: 13 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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