Did Fritz Lang Lie About Escaping Germany?
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Did Fritz Lang lie about escaping Germany? Why would he? It’s the beginning of March 1933, Goebbels just banned Fritz Lang’s latest film, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, for having an insane criminal ghost spouting the party's slogans in the film. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels called Lang to visit him in his office. But instead of the slap on the wrist that Lang expected, Goebbels offered him the position at the head of the entire German film industry. Lang, a half-Jewish man, was like, ‘that sounds great… Not!” And split Germany for Paris, later continuing his directing career in the United States. But as you’ll remember, there are some inconsistencies in Lang’s story...
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This video essay was written, edited, and narrated by Tyler Knudsen. Additional camerawork by Sophie
Sources:
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse - Audio Commentary
Fritz Lang: For Example Fritz Lang Interview with William Friedkin
Cinephilia & Beyond - bit.ly/2Kkacyy
Joe McElhaney on Fritz Lang's Anti-Nazi Films Fritz Lang,
Trailing Nazis by By Dave Kehr
Fritz Lang and Goebbels: Myth and Facts by Gösta Werner - bit.ly/2ph3zVM
Fritz Lang’s Monster: Was Metropolis a Pro-Nazi Film by Elly Hoffman - bit.ly/2PM0pVf
Clips:
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Metropolis
Man Hunt
The Great Escape
Music:
Epidemic Sound
Dr. Mabuse The Gambler
Metropolis
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With Lang, as with Capra and Welles, you should never let facts get in the way of a good story.
Do more episodes on German expressionism
Someday! Here's something I did on German expressionism for NoFilmSchool to hold you over until then:
ruclips.net/video/ecuQdkBx1ic/видео.html
@@CinemaTyler yeah, will you also analyse films by Michelangelo Antonioni or films like that of the conformist. I believe despite being one of the most influential films ever made blow up, the conformist never gets its due and you won't find good reviews of these types of movies anywhere
Classical Italian neo realism,in short.
it will ruin your brain...
There are many of this genre...including several on the Golem...
He wore the monocle was to compensate for an injury he had during the First World War.
Das ist richtiga!
and it probably just became a habit to put it on compared to wearing glasses or he liked the look of it at some point
@@mdegauss Fritz Lang was very conscious of image and appearance. The Monocole made him very distinctive, making him easy to recognize at parties and premiers.
and then a patch o his right one,,, it was about the symbol of the left EYE,duh,,,
He wore the monocle over his left eye, it was his right eye that got injured. He was just a fancy pants.
As an aging adult, I can assure you your memory doesn’t get better with age. I keep journals in order to try to keep things straight. I wonder if Lang was lying or just old and forgetful.
Could you consider doing some videos on Italian Neorealism?
I would love to someday! Here is something I did on Italian Neorealism for NoFilmSchool to hold you over until then ;)
ruclips.net/video/v_uLv6Wt2io/видео.html
It's easy to project current politics onto Metropolis. It's a perfect allegory for late-stage capitalism, for example.
"late stage capitalism" is a myth lol
@@tituslafrombois1164 ever been in an amazon warehouse?
@@leviathantb4014 Yeah? They're shit places to work. Your point, sir?
@@XY4X That was the entire point? Well then. You have done absolutely nothing to disprove my statement about "late stage capitalism" being a myth. Unless you would like to offer some argument as to how Amazon warehouse conditions prove capitalism to be a dying system, which I think you will find very difficult to do - hence why you didn't even bother to try doing it - I will have to take the "point" about them being bad places to work as a total non-sequitur.
@@tituslafrombois1164 go watch metropolis again. Nuff said
His story on escaping Germany is so wonderful I just have to accept it. I've read he embellished the story each time he told it. Good for Fritz, a very great talent. His films from the very beginning up to The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, his last, show no signs of a decline in creativity. How many directors can say this?
this story needs to be made into a movie!
With some reporter interviewing Lang and pointing the mistakes in the story, with flashbacks of both versions.
The big advantage of a monocle over a pair of glasses is that you can put it into a front pocket of a jacket.
Also, I think Lang may have had poor eyesight in his right eye so much it was not very useful.
Eventually he took to covering it with a patch.
Maybe he was lying about the monocle the whole time!
Metropolis is a film against technocrats and the worship of modernity and technology.
Rather silly video. Monocles were fairly common in the nineteen teens and 1920s. My mother told me she wore one as a teenager in England when she had temporary eye problems.
With the fritz Lang video you hooked me..... With this one I subscribed. My dearest compliments to you. Keep up the good work :)
sameee
My dogs name was Maximilian...
You just hit the algorithm my friend.... still.... lol nice cliffhanger 😡 😆
Yay finally! Been looking forwards to it also awesome video both parts man really interesting stuff
Thanks!
8:00 this is a very cool shot and I wonder how they did it. Mabuse is obviously double exposed since he's transparent but the documents he's holding appear to be solid! My best guess is only the right side of the frame was exposed twice, since the papers seem to be a little transparent when he gather them - but when he out stretches them to the professor they are solid. Its a seamless transition but the telling evidence for me is that Mabuse's hand seems to become solid too after it crosses that plane in the middle. Still, a pretty jarring effect - and one I had to rerun several times to catch it (if Im right)
Saw "Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse" when I was 10 or 11 years old. The car scene with the ghost spooked the * * * * out of me.
I really appreciate your responsibility with covering this topic. Covering this story could’ve easily been a disaster, but you give the facts and Lang’s account and don’t seem to project anything onto the artist that isn’t there for the sake of validating how you feel about the work
Love this! Got completely hooked within the first minutes. Also you’ve got a lot of great stuff on your channel. Loved everything iv’e watched so far. From one film-geek to another, Thank You! 👍
I love me some Fritz Lang
Source material is inaccurate for example the "American" i.e. Garbo ANNA KARENINA was released in 1935 hence it laughable to suggest Goebbels would have cited it as a favorite film in 1933. As to Lang's delay in leaving Germany this was to arrange the sale of his home in Berlin and other financial concerns. Like most wealthy Jews he did not feel he was in any immediate danger but suspected Hitler might last a good deal longer than his predecessors as Chancellor.
How to you make the cool aged-film effect of the "Masterpiece Theater"-version of yourself?
You know something Tyler, i like your channel. I mean wow.
Your content not only covers cinematography, you go over much history.
Fun stuff
I just found this channel and I really enjoy it ! All of these films are near and dear to me. I thought I discovered all film channels on RUclips so far but I was wrong ☺️
Good job my man, questioning official history is something we should all do.
Just a small detail.
Nazis didn't took the power (officially) until 1933.
But they were exercising violence, in most various ways, long before and to general approval.
Unofficially pointing against books, art, films, music and so on was their favourite way. They learned a lot from soviet "style" of propaganda (this last probably one of the most used terms in Goebbel's speeches).
So, criticizing products is violence now, eh?
@@federicoarmada8775 No. But thretening artists, diffarmation, destruction of art are violence. What the nazis did was waaaay beyond what a resonable person would call criticisim.
that was Stalin, not the soviets he destroyed
7:13 Okay, this is blatantly false. Electric Floor jokes aside, there were plenty of technologies developed in Germany during the 1930s that improved the lives of the citizens.
examples
Based
Okay, example?
@@applesandgrapesfordinner4626The Jerrycan.
I will always have a huge spot in my heart for this man and his movies.
Offtop, the monocle is usually connected to a chain connected to breast pocket. Like a pocket watch.
So Basically Fritz Lang pussied out?
Not like i blame him, but it defiantly sounds like he pussied out.I wonder if it initially upset Goebbels that he left so abruptly..?
Like "oh no he's already gone on holiday, b-but what about my ideas for his Film? D-did he not like my ideas for his Movie?" :(
get bentel Scarily plausible. The little Gobbler was an ugly, yet vain and egocentric man.
Goebbels and Hitler be like: :(
Great video man well done. Ive been studying Fritz Lang for a writing project im doing watching his films this has helped my research thanks
Whoa wait, is that seriously a Jonesy the cat from Alien shirt??? That rules!!!
It was so interesting and so well explained. Thanks a lot, man.
Those two videos were AWESOME!
Excellent content, keep it comin'!
I found this extremely interesting. Thanks for the entertainment, well done!
Superb analysis
Very interesting! Thank you!
Just discovered and subed,good stuff
Thanks for your Lang's videos, More than interesting to me👍
Metropolis is an unbelievable movie it doesn’t make sense how they made that every person in the movie is a good actor, how they got them all to move in unison like that and the skeleton scene
By 1933 numerous persons Associated with the film industry were in German had made their way to Hollywood. in fact the best were in high demand. For example Wiiam Fox went to great length to hire WF Murnau. High rollers in Hollywood undoubtedly were familiar with Lang's work. And even if they weren't how would the story that he escaped the Nazis help his career? It used to be that people had enough integrity to only make assertions of fact based on evidence amd research. Now you can just make a RUclips video and evidence, citations andd the testimony of witnesses become less important than cheesy production values, poor writing and unfounded speculation using clips and music you found on the web.
5:01 - time to get an advertisement in, while indicting collaborators!
Excellent video!
Subscribing now and a pleasure to watch!
3:42 - Eisenstein, Einstein; Coincidence?
What coincidence, Eisenstein and Einstein are two different names.
EISENSTEIN was RUSSIAN. EINSTEIN was GERMAN. There were plenty of Jews in Russia, too
Fascinating insight into this whole period.
Tyler looks just like Mark David Chapman.
Awesome video
very interesting
thank you
Monocles aren't rich guy things. Gold monocles were rich guy things, but glass monocles were available to people of all classes providing they could afford a lens at all.
Silver, brass, gold plated, horn, tortoiseshell and solid gold monocles were available, so lots of price points. Popular in most of Europe for almost 200 years.
0:30 Where are the nylon strings?
There is no r in Goebbels..
IT's just pronounced that way: G-E-R-B-I-L-S. That's German for you.
@@mikegrossberg8624 äähm... no. Its a short, straight ö. Like the "e" out of gerbil, but you cut it off before it changes to "r".
@@tomitiustritus6672 "G-E-B-I-L-S"?
@@mikegrossberg8624 Make it G-E-B-B-I-L-S, but try to pronounce the "E" as in G-E-R-B(...) ,but whithout actually following it up with the rrr sound.
Don´t make yourself mad over it, however. I myself use hard consonants and hissing sounds constantly, when speaking english, like a walking german clichee.
The umlaut over a German vowel makes a sound not ordinarily made in English.
Is it possible to subscribe two times to your channel? What a quality of content, thank you
3:59 is that an Animation or a real human, I'm getting some uncanny valley feelings
I love your channel, don't get me wrong but, how do you pronounce Goebbels as "geRbells"?
People like you and I sir are a rare breed, I’m 33 and have a hard time talking film with most, people need to watch more classics.
'classics' your pfp is literally doctor strange
@@claregregory3104 not speaking for op, but like classic japanese movies, european and american arthouse, and big blockbusters. when they are well made, i like all the movies
Very interesting stuff...
Oliver Reed talking about cinema... Good. 👍
I'm completely confused here. My copy of this film has the the year it came out as 1932. Also in the 1968 book by Carlos Clarens "An Illustrated History Of The Horror Film" it clearly states that the film was made in Germany in early 1932 ,and was not completely finished when Goebbels asked Lang to be the Nazi's head film minister, Lang then fled to France with the mostly complete film, hiding it , and himself on the train to escape, he finished editing in France, and the film's debut showing was in Paris in 1932 (not in Germany in 1933), later Goebels saw the film, and was pissed, and tried to find Lang ,but he was already long gone. Now I don't know which story is true? I do know, in at least three different books on classic cinema ( and on my DVD copy) the year listed is always 1932. Now correct me if I'm wrong, Hitler didn't even become the Chancellor of Germany until 1933, so all kinds of stuff is not connecting. Oh' well , we may never know how it went down, all those folks are gone now. Either way, it's still a great film, and it is well known that Hitler, and Goebels were big fans of Fritz Lang's films, in particular Die Nibelungen (especially the Siegfried portion), and Metropolis. Cool review, man. Bob.G
The film was made in 1932 but was released first in Paris in 1933, later in Austria but not in Germany at all
@@SallyGordonMark Right On. Thanx Sally. Bob. G
All German names are pronounced wrong!
You must be American...Most German citizens where covered by social health insurance at the time. Wealthy individuals could opt out in favor of private health insurance, but when Hitler came, all these companies were taken by the government and they could not self-administrate. Even during Fascism, Germany was not as bad as the US in terms of healthcare, education and so on.
The Chinese tapestry at the 6:31 mark has swastikas all around its border. Leave it to the story tellers to make sacred things profane.
Anna Karenina with Greta Garbo did not release till 1935. How can Goebbels have seen it in 1933?
Acted out perfectly!
My great aunt lost an eye in high school, when she was hit in the head by a baseball. She wore a monocle the rest of her life.
why do you pronounce goebbels name as gurbuls ?
For the same reason that the name Goethe is pronounced like "Geerta". It is German, not English. Similar stuff for Goering, too.
@@jeffreyfwagner uhm yeah that's the thing , germans don't pronounce that r in goebbels
Common usage , prolly rooted in pop culture , stalage16 leads to Hogan's heroes , gobels , the goal is to be understood , focus on the big idea , have weighty- meaty point to your argument , don't fret the sounds , do your best ,press on .
MrLedeberg because that’s how O with the umlaut is pronounced. Look it up, dolt.
@@nhmooytis7058 yeah it's not , i know how to pronounce stuff with an umlaut
You should do a vid on Goebbels's wartime distraction for the German people- 1943's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
Such shitty comments on such a great video, love your channel man, keep uo with the great work!
I don't understand Lange's quote at the end.
if the evil still exists you must fight against it... maybe?
To me it sounds like Lange himself lost the track of what he wanted to say at the end, and he ended his rambling with "that's it" to make that a bit less obvious.
@@stefanb6539 You might be right.
Once you've made a contract with the devil, you're in it for the long haul.
one day you will betray yourself, you'll remember a video tape or embarrassing letter you wrote, i.e SOMETHING from your past will haunt you one day.
You've probably already figured that out, though.
Am I the only one that sees it as criticizing over important artists who think they are doing politics by doing art pointing something? You point it, it is good denouncing it, but at the end of the day, that's all you are doing and evil pointed still exists, you should accuse but you're not really being as important as you think. He seems to be quite honest about how his own accusations on nazis in art were empty and useless to stop them although he didn't think he shouldn't have done it.
Yes
Hmm.
"all-round douche"
What if the day after I wanted to see a movie, and got side tracked, then Mubi takes it away?
No.
Shit I thought you're talking about the yodeler
Joseph Gerbils xD Love the way you pronounce Goebbels
make sth on mutiny on the bounty with brando.
Wouldn't the minds of the masses be dumbfounded if they ever truly realized that one power has controlled both sides for millennia?
T H E M O L E P E O P L E
@@dylanschnabel4859 Yeah. Probably. You're right, rich people would never conspire and play people against people.
Gander Stein ITS DA MOLE PEOPLE I TELL YA
@@ganderstein3426 Yeah, rich people are of course all in it together. It's not like rich people are all in rivalry to each other in their greed. You know the chinese leadership rich people and the hollywood rich people and the russian oligarchs and the ceos of multinational corporations they don't have interests that are in opposition to each other ever they are a secret cabal with regular meetings during which they cackle maniacally.
That oversimplification of the rich as "One(probably jewish) power" is not oversimplification passing into conspiracy theory whatsoever and yeah for "Millenia" definetly. You know the ancient egyptian company owners were actually controlling the pharaohs decrees with their lobbyists to influence the stock market. Not like both populations and governments over the centuries much less millenia were fucking up and murdering the rich they had a problem with on countless occassions including the french revolution, the nazis(who took over companies while working far to closely with others) and the soviets, but also already monarchs who viewed rich merchants as threats to their absolute power and acted accordingly commonly backed by pro monarchie intellectuals from the nobility.
The reptilian overlords
In response the Mubi plug at the end: I adored Two Days One Night. That movie gave me faith in humanity and myself
I believe he escaped from Germany is that I think he might predict another war happening.
Django Reinhardt, a Romany chose to stay in occupied Paris while his Italian partner endured bombings in London 🤷♂️
I can't blame him.. it's showbiz
At least Brigitte Helm was on the right side of history.
Unfortunately the Nazis caused her to become so disillusioned with acting she retired altogether after only 8 years in the industry.
Das ist wahrscheinlich. Sonst wärs ihm in Hollywood wohl noch schwerer gemacht worden als sowieso schon.
Mubi is Mobys evil brother
One note I'll give: Please, please try to think of film in historical and political context more, and please do some serious political research. You repeatedly mentioned things about the politics about these pieces that should have seemed obvious, if complex, that you claimed near ignorance on. Of course a propagandist would find even implying a successful revolution vile, and of course a fascist dictator would find "kinship" in a leader as a man of the people. You're making statements about them while clearly ignoring their headspace or motivations, which is important not only historically, but considering this is a video all about, basically, he-said-she-said statements. Fascinating story and great work regardless, but it's something to think on.
Interesting. Good job, Tyler. Is that really you on screen or you were dubbing over someone else??:-)
Though I must say you don't really provide a clear cut explanation. You raise questions and the questions remain. By the way, it is easy to say now, he should be against dictatorship, stand up and criticize and so forth, and at the time 1932/33-1939 many did, and almost invariably they were sent to a torture concentration camp, beaten, tortured and then released with broken bones, or simply killed. However, Fritz Lang did move to the USA and was on the side of the Allies!|
Lang, you got some mansplaining to do... Well?
sweet
You look like the dude who murked john lennon
Man hunt is super
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If lang was born of Jewish parents, Q. How does that make him half Jewish?
Only his mother was Jewish.
7:12
So the concept of the highway, the first anti-smoking campaigns, jet engines and hunting laws don't count as improvements. Got it.
The "highway", the autobahn, may have put large numbers of people to work, but it's PURPOSE was to provide an unrestricted high speed roadway for MILITARY vehicles; civilian traffic was secondary. Jet engines were developed for MILITARY purposes; civilian uses weren't even CONSIDERED by the Germans. Re your last item: you must be an anti-hunter. European hunting laws, for centuries, restricted hunting to only the upper classes. Peasants caught taking game were, usually, subjected to SEVERE punishments, INCLUDING death! Only an "animal rights" advocate would be in favor of something that equated the life of a man with that of a rabbit!
In the Feudal period, if you didn't hunt, you often didn't eat.
So you're lying when you state that hunting was a profession *restricted* to the upper classes.
@@Auditer2009 Better check your history. Check the Forest Laws of William, Duke of Normandy and King of England. Ever see ANY "Robin Hood" movie? What could happen to people who "poached the King's deer"? Right up till the nineteenth century, when it was reduced to fines and imprisonment, poaching on a Lord's property, at BEST, could get you flogged, or your hand, ears, etc cut off. OR it could get you HANGED. All forests belonged to the King, as did every single animal in them; he would grant landowning nobility the right to hunt there. The ONLY commoners allowed to hunt were King's Foresters, sort of the game wardens of the period, and THEY were restricted as to how much game they could take! Ordinary peasants didn't hunt(at least not LEGALLY). Meat was NOT a big part of their ordinary diet
In your mental gymnastics, you didn't mention the overabundance of inexpensive and omnivorous pigs of Medieval Europe, of which are still considered pests in many parts of the world.
Robin Hood is also shrouded in fiction and doubt, so I'm not sure why you'd bother using Hollywood as source material.
And the anti-poaching laws implemented by NSDAP took place in the *20th* century. If you really need to learn the importance of such, look no further than the near-extinct American buffalo.
@@Auditer2009 There were anti-hunting/poaching laws in Europe nearly a thousand years ago. Try doing a little research.
Hi there. I really like and enjoy your videos. In this particular one, it sounds like you pronounce Goebel's name as "Goerbel"... Is there a reason for that?
It's the easiest way to immitate the sound of an umlaut in English
As an English speaker, I can tell you that the pronunciation does sound a lot like a soft R is in there. Anyway it's not anyone's job to suddenly affect a flawless foreign accent when saying a foreign name or word. He said it how he hears it. Good enough for me. It's not like anyone doesn't know who he's talking about.
"Is there a reason for that?" - yeah, It's how practically every person ever pronounces it.
_"Is there a reason for that?"_
_please_
There's no r in Goebbels.
THE CLIFFHANGER CONTINUES.....
I'm cringing so hard every time you say "gorballs", which is a shame, because otherwise the video is awesome!
there is no R in Goebbels........
Looking through the comments, i see a lot of pretty undeserved negativity. You've done a great job here. Most of the criticism is basically that you're not absolutely perfect in every way. That kind of criticism isn't helpful.
Lang = Zelig