Fritz Lang

“People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that’s a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Often associated with the notion of destiny, his films have less to do with predestination than in the effect of internal and external forces upon thought and action. Depicting, through his body of work, a continual struggle with and predominance of the darker elements of human...