M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (5/8) - Fritz Lang Film (1931)

1931 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00065GX64?ie=UTF8&tag=doc06-20&link... Watch the full film: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/11/m-eine-stadt-sucht-einen-morder-f... * Lang appears as himself in Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 film Le Mepris. * A fictional Lang appears as a main character in the Fullmetal Alchemist movie "Conqueror Of Shambala". * An old German director with the demeanors of Lang appears during the filming of a bank robbery in Woody Allen's 1969 comedy Take the Money and Run. * In David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest, Lang is mentioned in tandem with James Cameron on page 48.

Thea Gabriele von Harbou (December 27, 1888 -- July 1, 1954) was a German actress and author of Prussian aristocratic origin. She was born in Tauperlitz in the Kingdom of Bavaria.

In 1905, she published her first novel in the Deutsche Roman-Zeitung. However, she then started to work as an actress, beginning in 1906 in Düsseldorf, then moving to Weimar (1908), Chemnitz (1911) and Aachen (1913). In Aachen she met her first husband, the actor and director Rudolf Klein-Rogge, whom she married in 1914.

In 1920, she wrote her first film script Das Indische Grabmal (The Indian Tomb, Mysteries of India), together with Fritz Lang based on her novel The Indian Tomb. Fritz Lang became her second husband in 1922, and they collaborated in the following years, writing the screenplays for Metropolis and M together. They separated in October 1931 and divorced in 1933.

In 1932, a year before Adolf Hitler came to power, she joined the National Socialist German Workers (Nazi) Party, which presumably led to the divorce from Lang, who left Germany in 1934 for Paris after his film The Testament of Dr. Mabuse had been banned by the Nazi government. Fritz Lang's mother, although religiously a convert to Catholicism, was of Jewish extraction.

In 1934, she wrote a cinematic adaptation of Gerhart Hauptmann's play The Assumption of Hannele, which she also directed.

Harbou wrote the script for Der Herrscher (1937), directed by Veit Harlan and starring Emil Jannings. The movie celebrates unconditional submission under absolute authority, eventually finding reward in total victory.

After the war she was detained by the British military government, and then did unskilled labor, such as cleaning up rubble from the bombing. After receiving a working permit she did some synchronizing of movies, but also continued to write scripts.

She died in 1954, aged 65, in Berlin.

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