German
Expressionism
The Directors
George Grosz
Fritz
Lang - The director of Metropolis and M was
probably the most successful in this country of the German Expressionist
movie makers who immigrated to Hollywood in the 1930s. Lang is also
considered the father of film-noir which we will study next.
Fiedrich
Wilhelm Murnau - The director of Nosferatu and Faust
died at 43 in an automobile accident. Murnau was probably the most
artistic of the Expressionism directors.
Paul
Leni - Most well known for directing the "old dark house"
mystery
Cat
and the Canary, Paul Leni also died young (44) after immigrating
to Hollywood.
G.W.Pabst
- The director of Pandora's Box and Threepenny Opera fled Germany
in the early 1930s but returned in 1939 to direct films for Hitler's
Third Reich.
Robert
Weine - The director of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari never
made it to Hollywood. Instead he fled to France in the early 1930s
and died there in 1938.
Josef
von Sternberg - Most well-known as Marlene Dietrich's director
in the Blue Angel and others (he directed her in seven films),
von Sternberg never gained the fame or admiration of Hollywood and
US film fans that the actress did.
