Q 01/05

Lang made his name in Berlin, but which other capital was his birthplace?

A) Prague

B) Budapest

C) Vienna

D) Warsaw

Answer · why

C) Vienna

Vienna was where Lang briefly studied civil engineering before dropping it for art; by his own account he then roamed Europe, North Africa and Asia.

Q 02/05

Lang said his first sight of which city's skyscrapers inspired Metropolis?

A) Chicago

B) New York

C) London

D) Shanghai

Answer · why

B) New York

New York. Lang always credited the glaring lights and tall buildings of that first visit, but the idea for the film was already months old when he arr...

Q 03/05

In Lang's 1921 fantasy Destiny, a young woman pleads for her lover's life with which figure?

A) The Devil

B) Father Time

C) Saint Peter

D) Death

Answer · why

D) Death

Death. Weary himself, he lets her try to save one of three doomed lives, in the Middle East, Venice and China, and every one of the three candles stil...

Q 04/05

Which Lang film pioneered the rocket-launch countdown?

A) Moonfleet

B) Woman in the Moon

C) Metropolis

D) Cloak and Dagger

Answer · why

B) Woman in the Moon

Woman in the Moon swapped the count-ups of earlier rocket stories for a countdown to build suspense before liftoff, and real mission controls later di...

Q 05/05

Where did Lang, an army officer in World War I, start writing his first film scenarios?

A) In a prisoner-of-war camp

B) In a front-line dugout

C) In a military hospital

D) At a cavalry school

Answer · why

C) In a military hospital

In a military hospital: wounded several times and left blind in his right eye, Lang filled his convalescence with scripts and had sold some to a film ...