Fritz Lang

Mabuse. At the outbreak of World War I Lang returned to Vienna and volunteered for military service in the Austrian army and fought in Russia and Romania where he was wounded three times. Following the production Brauner was ready to proceed with his remake of Das Testament des Doctor Mabuse when Lang approached him with the idea of adding another original film to the series.

One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5 1890 – August 2 1976) was an Austrian-American filmmaker screenwriter and occasional film producer and actor.