How Fritz Lang Trolled the Nazis

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In 1933, legendary director Fritz Lang made a film criticizing the Nazis just as they were coming to power. However, instead of the slap on the wrist he was expecting, he was offered the position at the head of the German film industry. Lang knew he had to escape Germany, but how did he do it?
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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
Clips:
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Metropolis
M
Downfall
Europa Europa
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Last Crusade
Inglourious Basterds
To Be Or Not To Be
Valkyrie
Burn After Reading
Eyes Wide Shut
The Simpsons - “The Lemon of Troy”
Back to the Future
Man Hunt
No Country for Old Men
The Great Escape
North by Northwest
Contempt
The 400 Blows
Music:
Epidemic Sound
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#FritzLang
#FilmHistory

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@komamaboas 5 лет назад

Fun fact: Mabuses eyes are actually Fritz Langs gigantic balls

@ChupeTTe 4 года назад

Still too smalls

@politykanazw2622 4 года назад

"THE NAZIS" *demonetized* that was pretty nice

@doctornobody611 4 года назад

If the history channel run RU-vid this guy would be the new Jake paul

@gountzas 4 года назад

Not the "N" word?!

@Malumbrus 4 года назад

Haha yeah, came here to comment, glad to see it's top

@maverickhamza1696 2 года назад

I know I am kinda off topic but do anyone know a good place to watch new tv shows online?

@brentleylegend8964 2 года назад

@Maverick Hamza i would suggest Flixzone. You can find it on google =)

@mellow-mike 5 лет назад

I believe when you mention the "Yellow shirts" you are referring to the Sturmabteilung/SA which were called the brown shirts not the yellow shirts as you say

@CinemaTyler 5 лет назад

Thanks for the correction. The story in this video is built out of a couple of interviews Fritz Lang gave in which he referred to them numerous times as 'Yellow Shirts.' Hopefully in context it will make sense.

@CarlosGarcia-ii4zc 5 лет назад

Niall Reynolds makes perfect sense, no distraction at all.

@lifeofbrian5092 5 лет назад

No problem here because I saw the clip with the men wearing 'yellow-ish' shirts in this video.

@kyleshiflet7932 5 лет назад

@malkooth I guess I'm a socialist I dont really keep up with politics really

@Galantski 5 лет назад

Wait, I thought you were pwning us with the "yellow shirt" references, a subtle wink as if to say, "This whole 'Fritz trolls the Nazis' story has about as much substance as a Mabuse fever dream" and if you were paying attention, you would have seen the clue I provided by deliberately getting the Nazis' shirt color wrong.

@mrunseen3797 5 лет назад

Spoiler alert....... I just realised, the people of the Sherlock Holmes series ripped the plot of "the Testament of Mabuse" for the 4th season.

@SierraSierraFoxtrot 4 года назад

Mark Gatiss is a big fan of this type of horror.

@apollomars1678 4 года назад

i wanna point out, that ther eis a sequal. the return of dr. Mabuse

@repulo 5 лет назад

Sorry but 'Herrschaft' (reign) is not the same as 'Reich' (empire) 2:37

@CorbCorbin 5 лет назад

Főgler László Even if he intentionally put that line in the film, to "embarrass, or sleight the Nazis, he would've had to been boasting about it to people. As one line, that doesn't even use the exact phrase, would've just went unnoticed by most. I'm not saying he wasn't thinking about it, when he wrote the film, but one would have to know he had disgust for the Nazis, to see the entire "mad genius", as symbolic for Hitler, and his promise of the empire/Reich. You're comment makes it more apparent with how careful he was being. As he had the built in excuse, that he used the word herrschaft, instead of reich, as to not offend them. He did leave without much of his money, but I believe that was just because of the times, and the fact he would've been monitored. Taking a large sum, or transferring it, would've had him under the thumb of Goebbels, most likely intimidated to make propaganda for the party.

@TheXeldrak 4 года назад

Doesn't he say "Der letzte Sinn des Verbrechens ist es, eine beschränkte Herrschaft des Verbrechens aufzurichten."? So, a proper translation would be "The ultimate purpose of crime is to establish a limited reign of crime." I really don't see how you could translate it as "the endless empire of crime"

@ciceroflyman 4 года назад

Xeldrak He says „unbeschränkt“, that means limitless

@Texasjim2007 2 года назад

It's not really a significant distinction in terms of actual meaning except to rigid legalists.

@alexanderpuschkin9958 5 лет назад

By the way, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse is a fantastic movie!

@robertwalton7565 5 лет назад

I was hoping someone would mention this.

@AFox739 3 года назад

Hell yeah :)

@jamespiskorz8641 2 года назад

4 hours and 27 minutes of joy except ghost mabuse he is TERRIFYING

@edmonddantes3640 4 года назад

Mabuse was a very popular villain in Germany, movies about him were made into the 60s, with Fritz Lang directing some. Many recognizable faces from German cinema starred in them, Gert Frobe, (Goldfinger) Peter can Eyck ( The Spy Who Came In From The Cold) and Wolfgang Priess (The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far.) Thanks, really enjoyed this.

@TheInfamousJosh 5 лет назад

And the award for hairiest knuckles of all time goes to.... :)

@CinemaTyler 5 лет назад

Hehe, I'm in a perpetual state of turning into a werewolf.

@TheInfamousJosh 5 лет назад

CinemaTyler you make it look good! 👏 👏 👏

@michaelwertzy9808 5 лет назад

@@CinemaTylershave your teeth!

@DanStevenson 4 года назад

Apes don't have hair on their knuckles.

@deadpan80 4 года назад

5:10 if you could ever picture a snake smiling - this would be it

@matttucker3 5 лет назад

Well done sir, suspense and tension are high can’t wait for part 2 :D

@nicktosti7487 5 лет назад

I'd really love to see some conversation about "M" Fritz's 1931 film which also has some Nazi satire in it. I've heard that the Nazi's adopted the film as great until they realized that the gang in the movie represented them.

@landofthesilverpath5823 Год назад

Interesting, I always interpreted the criminal underworld in the movie as anti-heros. Sure, they were thieves and beggars and so on. But they at least had enough honor to get rid of a serial child killer/rapist. I mean, the killer wasn't exactly the good guy of the film being oppressed or anything.

@soulknight5330 8 месяцев назад

@@landofthesilverpath5823 fr

@Mrs_Beanbag 2 месяца назад

@@landofthesilverpath5823 that just shows how amazing the Movie is. The Gang states that what they do (begging, stealing, what ever) is their job ("everyone got to make a living") and if cops/the police force is harmed in conflict they say that's what they (the cops) signed up for. They knew the risk. They gangsters are portrait in a relatable way. And get even more relatable when they state that murdering children (and making the police disrupt their business) is inexcusably! They are even offended that the police thinks the killer is one of them. So they decide to take things in their own hands. I think on that point everyone rooted for them and their chance of getting the murderer, especially after the police couldn't get him by then. But in the end, especially with the speeches given at the "trial" you see that they are not so nice guys after all. The language (I only know the German version) is heavily influenced by fascist rhetorics. Even if they look like a Court they are only a better organised lynch mob where the outcome of the trial is already clear the beginning. That's when the mask falls.

@Mrs_Beanbag 2 месяца назад

Relatable at first, and sympathetic for the "hands on" mentality especially compared to the inefficient police but nothing but a deadly lynch mob in the end. Maybe that movie is still relevant almost 100 years after it's release 😅😅

@nicktosti7487 2 месяца назад

@@landofthesilverpath5823 that's the interesting flip of the movie, the criminal is built up as a shadowy big bad figure but is the most pathetic person in the film. The mother at the end feels no justice has truly been served.

@vicenteortegarubilar9418 5 лет назад

So glad there is a new video from this channel. This history is great.

@Yonsucker 5 лет назад

The editing and choice of scenes is just perfect

@davidmouser596 5 лет назад

You do know that the memoirs the Dr is ripping up is an analogy of Hitlers Mein Kampf. So its a middle finger to the fuhrers writing as well;)

@Microtonal_Cats 4 года назад

"why would a storyteller tell a story??" Good video. Thank you.

@PyroNexus22 5 лет назад

That damned Gerbels

@michaelwertzy9808 5 лет назад

Damn good one, P.N.!

@nikokaapa 4 года назад

Perfectly executed comment

@yp9511 4 года назад

Gerbels...🤣🤣🤣. 6-

@dickeymckay8289 4 года назад

Love a lot of your vids @CinemaTyler. Great editing skills. I run a cinema club on social media, and will recommend your critiques and vids to peers in the group. This being a great example. Kudos to you my friend.

@MakeStuffStudios 5 лет назад

Honestly my favorite channel on youtube. And that demonetization joke is perfection ❤

@CinemaTyler 5 лет назад

Hehe, my prediction came true...

@MakeStuffStudios 5 лет назад

CinemaTyler I mean, what do you expect when you do something disgusting like acknowledging the historical existence of Nazis.

@sboinkthelegday3892 Год назад

Fun to see this dancing around the topic, when RU-vid is telling you, 'Mein Herr, in this country, ve don't talk about De Nutsies... now show some allegiance with clips of Inglorious Basterds" KIIINDA makes you think about Goebbel's strong convictions, to this or that naughty word.

@greyone40 Год назад

This came back up on my rotation for some reason, so I watched it again. Great video.

@rangoononline 5 лет назад

Thanks for making this video even though you knew it would be demonetized. I love all your stuff. Fritz Lang looks amazing with that eye patch!

@arthurhudson2 5 лет назад

Great work! Looking forward to the next one. I always loved the story of Fritz Lang.

@billyleroy2465 4 года назад

Awesome!..thank you! I love the storytelling scenarios .. you're a great actor Tyler!

@semperfi818 4 года назад

I just subscribed, as I find value in your well-deserved takes on cinema...and hugs to your cat, BTW.

@GaryDevore 5 лет назад

Glad we get to see and not just hear you, Tyler! Great vid.

@Spartan300001 5 лет назад

I know this sounds dumb, but excellent video, and thank you for the Bowie cameo right at the end there. Wasn't expecting it but it was nice, great work and research on the video. The use of adaptive fiction and tailor-making the video rather than talking against pictures was nice, great idea, good job.

@michaelaldan4354 4 года назад

well put together and a great effort..keep going !

@karlhungus888 Год назад

genius work and editing! really glad i discovered your channel

4 года назад

thank you man, feel more alive right now. looking for chapter 2

@ShootMeMovieReviews 4 года назад

It's fun to spot the clips from other movies in your video. Keeping me busy.

@sinsofmemphisto7809 5 лет назад

Tyler, you are friggin' briliant! One of the best movie vlogs I've seen on youTube. Thank you so much for your scholarship and the obvious care you take in making your videos. Kudos.

@namaste91 4 года назад

This is not only like a story out of a movie,this HAS to be a movie!

@lateinlifeleather6650 4 года назад

Please edit and change “yellow shirts” to “brown shirts” for historical accuracy. Thank you.

@jaysherratt8475 4 года назад

Lateinlife Leather there was both yellow shirts and brown shirts, brown shirts were a higher up variation of yellow shirts, yellow shirts were a sort of ‘grunt’ so to speak.

@jaysherratt8475 4 года назад

Blank Blank i think they were referred to as the Gelbes which I think roughly translates to yellow lol

@vicaldama9314 5 лет назад

Great editing my man!

@Daniel-Rosa. 5 лет назад

Your narration is very pleasent to follow. Trying not to take praise away from the editing, but it's cool to know our best guns.

@ambtenaar 4 года назад

This is very well made! Great work!

@lifeofbrian5092 5 лет назад

Great work as always!

@oogaboogabrown 5 лет назад

Another great video as always. Always keep it up

@fabrileon7005 4 года назад

You are telling the story as if it was a script and i love it

@davecook8378 4 года назад

The downvotes must be those yellowshirts!

@allen7631 Месяц назад

Or people who care about historical accuracy and prefer that these topics be treated respectfully😅

@princeeverlove 2 года назад

Outstanding Channel...alive, vibrant, an obvious love letter to Classic International Cinema!

@crabnebula1914 3 года назад

Mubi is great and this video is fun, well done!!

@danosaurus5281 4 года назад

Great video, both parts. Did you produce the wonderful creepy music during the hallucination scenes? If it's from an existing soundtrack, i would love to know where from. Brilliant choice underlying the whole presentation. I'm a big Lang fan and didn't know much of this. Hope you don't mind the music question? Thank you. I'm now a new subscriber. Glad I found you. :-)

@kylestclair471 4 года назад

Great video, man

@technoviking3827 5 лет назад

Great video! Loved it!

@willieluncheonette5843 Год назад

Dr. Mabuse the Gambler is one of my 12 all time favorite films and I consider Lang to be the premier director of film noir. I love love love his appearance in Godard's Contempt, also in my all time top 12.

@gasjebasje99 3 года назад

I just learned of fritz lang through a short gag in family guy, of all places. Felt the need to learn about him! He has an eyepatch so I could tell he was a very important man!

@skay1992 2 года назад

This is my first time watching your videos Im immediately a fan. love it

@apc9079 5 лет назад

Just watched testament of dr mabuse on film struck, definitely some brilliance in there. Glad I watched.

@amberturdcoloringbook1733 Год назад

The most important dialogue in the film is when they are at the morgue, Doctor Mabuse is dead and the Doctor is praising him as if he was Hitler. Talking about how this world needs total destruction and only Dr. Mabuse could do it..

@TheOutlawed1000 4 года назад

Reality is stranger that fiction as it seems.

@dwc1964 4 года назад

Masterpiece Theatre theme - I was half expecting Alistair Cooke to show up

@Azliz721 2 года назад

Great info!

@GreyDingo 4 года назад

Sorry, mate, you just look like Jim Jones when you do that suit & glasses shtick.

@orgasmorusso69spasmolenzi70 Год назад

Fritz Lang is my bro. I remember how the chick and I got high over the jokes of mabuse. We were still in the cinema - in Slovakia, like a gallery- cinema. And we were fumbled. Fritz Lang is the most sympathetic Simpson of all the Germans. Also, his photos are awesome.

@nateblack8669 4 года назад

"Yer all Gerbles!" 😆 Sorry, couldn't help but think if that guy, hearing the name Goebbles. Subbed 👍

@GrafOrlock93 5 лет назад

Oooh! Really loved this one! :)

@somegoddamnguy 5 лет назад

Cool video, but you should take it down and re-upload it edited with the correct term "brown shirts", you use the term "yellow shirts" a lot and it'll make anyone who's at all familiar with the lead up to WWII cringe

@CinemaTyler 5 лет назад

@a_lethe_ion 5 лет назад

pronouncing goebbels like gerbils is also pretty funny ;)

@TTURBOVOLVO 5 лет назад

And Lang, like 'leng' in length.

@TheOutlawed1000 4 года назад

Nothing makes people more mad than getting stuff wrong about the Nazis.

@TheXeldrak 4 года назад

@insanebase8883 4 года назад

UNbeschränkte Herrschafft

@TheXeldrak 4 года назад

@@insanebase8883 Also, ich habe mir den Abschnitt jetzt 10 mal angehört, ich höre da "beschränkte Herrschaft". Aber vll. bin ich auch taub...

@Sadworm100 4 года назад

Es ist sehr undeutlich, aber ich höre da auf jeden Fall "unbeschränkt". It's quite unclear, but I hear "unbeschränkt/endless".

@kenkoopa7903 4 года назад

Honestly, the Gurgles talk is chilling as fuck, especially the end where he outright admits "we get to decide who is an Aryan". He just gave the fucking game away; willing to use a political enemy to grow their influence and strengthen their grip on the nation already under their control, in the end, fascist leaders don't care about much more than their own power.

@bandicootcollector Месяц назад

I have to know, where is the clip from 8:14-8:17 from? Thank you so much.

@goodguy5595 4 года назад

Yellow shirts. I thought they were called brown shirts ?

@chopin65 5 лет назад

Cliff hanger! Tyler, you're getting crafty!

@Dellaluna13 4 года назад

Hey, I've got that Jonesy shirt too. I've been a big fan of the Mabuse films for years, my original YT name even honored the series. I have a theory that the freaky ghost makeup FX on Mabuse partly inspired a particular toy from the 60's.

@nickirmen6671 4 года назад

what toy?

@duantorruellas716 4 года назад

Cinema Tyler , you're the best , I wish you did an analysis on the occult symbolism of the film Dr.Phibes.

@MrGjcannon 6 месяцев назад

Have you taken the clip of the man walking down the corridor from 'Point Blank', the feet being those of Walker played by Lee Marvin?

@mariavienna1305 4 года назад

Love your 80’ glasses 👓

@johnsmith-so5do 5 лет назад

Great video but where'd you get yellow from?

@spiderswing108 4 года назад

Helpful :)

@pedrogarcialondon 4 года назад

Youre very good, mate, hahahah that was funny and fresh AF, and really interesting. Thanks.

@Gexgrino 5 лет назад

thank you for your content, please keep it coming :) I think you hit my niche liking

@Alagboriel 5 лет назад

Your make up and costume design as the presenter looks like a thinner Mark Chapman, dude. =O I loved your Kubrick series, man, you got me hooked. I really would like to see you doing a review on "The Man Who Fell To Earth" any of these days.

@MrWoohoo 4 года назад

You don’t link to part two in the description:(

@alexkrajci 2 месяца назад

R.I.P. Fritz Lang (1890-1976)

@wellrose17 4 года назад

Thanks. Subscribed. So, Moobi is it? It's strictly indie type films or cult /niche? Sorry about my description. Regardless, love the channel. Recently found a love for art house and not well known cinema.

@FM________ 4 года назад

It's mubi and yes it's strictly Indie and arthaus movies. I get it for free because of my University but I'd also pay for it tbh :D

@TheAtZShow 5 лет назад

2:17 LMFAO

@CinemaTyler 5 лет назад

I was right... hehe. Tubebuddy was like, "You sure you wanna put 'Nazi' in the title?"

@MikeJohnson-yh4lg 4 года назад

What is the background music you used?

@trayltank1015 4 года назад

They were called „Braunhemden“ (brown) not yellow shirts

@henkgerritsen1444 4 года назад

They were called SA or sturmabteilung, braunhemden was sort of a derogetory term if you were SA.

@RENEDU2 Год назад

06:09 your cat going nuts 😆

@TheInternet12345 4 года назад

touyube's demon etization algorithm is the real na zi

@spiderswing108 4 года назад

What are your sources for these claims?

@TeatroGrotesco 4 года назад

For character realism should have had couch Tyler groan at the tune in next time.

@Sn0rlax18 3 года назад

Does anyone know if there's like a movie about lang? I feel like thatd make for an AMAZING film

@adambartlett7955 4 года назад

that ghost must have been terrifying back in the day

@EVEROSFP1 Год назад

"We decide who is Arayan " ..is like "The end justifies the means ..".

@alexkrajci 2 месяца назад

The Only Version Of 1933's The Testament Of Dr. Mabuse That I Prefer Is The Restored Version In It's Original Foreign Language (German) With English Subtitles (124 Mins).

@Coolio_Ash 4 года назад

dude that ghost is going to haunt my dreams

@SC1089 4 года назад

Where is part II?

@yourcultboyfriend 5 лет назад

This video rules. Bravo.

@steel.oneill 5 лет назад

Incredible story!

@hiimriley07 4 года назад

My god man. How long have you been growing those knuckle dusters?

@paxvid 5 лет назад

Well played sir! 👏😄

@mohammadkarim4285 4 года назад

What's the music at 1:35 from?

@needleconsumer Год назад

won't lie, thought this was about a famous yodeler by the same name it may not be him. But very interesting video!

@gunungmerapiapi1933 4 года назад

7:43 Oh my God his Passport photo 😂

@ROTEsimplemachines 4 года назад

Did you just unlock Godard's /Contempt/? Thank you.

@sirlordhenrymortimer6620 5 лет назад

M is a fantastic movie

@johnlinley4375 3 года назад

I have never heard of a German group called the yellow shirts. There was a Russian group of revelationaries called the yellow shirts a little before this time. There were German brown shirts, and black shirts. Are these the ones you are talking about?