Fritz Lang was born on 5 December 1890 in Vienna, Austria. In the early 1920s, he began his career as a director for the silent cinema in Berlin. Until 1933 he directed numerous films, constituting an important German filmography: Destiny (1921), Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922), M (1931), Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924). Metropolis (1926), an expressionistic drama about a futuristic society where mankind is enslaved, became is a key -film in his career, widely considered as his masterpiece. Facing the Nazis, Lang fled to Hollywood and started a new career, beginning with Fury, in 1936. His diverse filmography blends genres, from film noir to crime thrillers and costume pieces.