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Austrian filmmaker (1890–1976)

Also known as: Friedrich Christian Anton Lang, Фриц Ланг, فريتز لانغ, 프리츠 랑, フリッツ・ラング, 弗里茨·朗

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Thea von Harbou1888–1954
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Her novels, including Metropolis, share the same mythic, expressionist visions of machine-age cities and class conflict. (AI reason)
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Norbert Jacques1880–1954
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His Dr. Mabuse novels offer the original pulp tale of a master criminal manipulating a decadent Weimar society. (AI reason)
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Gustav Meyrink1868–1932
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The Golem conjures a shadowy, uncanny expressionist atmosphere of fate and the supernatural. (AI reason)
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Karel Čapek1890–1938
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R.U.R. and his other speculative works explore mechanization, workers and dehumanization much like Metropolis. (AI reason)
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Hanns Heinz Ewers1871–1943
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Writes dark fantastic fiction of the German expressionist era about obsession and artificial creation. (AI reason)
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Yevgeny Zamyatin1884–1937
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We presents a geometric, regimented dystopian city that echoes Metropolis's imagery of control. (AI reason)
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Franz Kafka1883–1924
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His nightmarish tales of guilt, pursuit and faceless authority share the paranoid mood of M and Lang's thrillers. (AI reason)
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Alfred Döblin1878–1957
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Berlin Alexanderplatz portrays the Weimar underworld and urban crime with a montage-like modernist style. (AI reason)
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H. G. Wells1866–1946
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His scientific romances depict stratified future societies and technological menace. (AI reason)
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Cornell Woolrich1903–1968
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His noir suspense fiction of fate, guilt and wrongful accusation matches Lang's American crime films. (AI reason)
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