Fritz Lang: Circle of Destiny (1998)

Documentary on director Fritz Lang and his German language films. Like its subject the film eschews the traditional structural tendencies of most directorial profiles, its not devotedly chronological, there is no narrator, and important parts of his life are entirely skipped over to concentrate on the preferred themes. Interviews in German and English, archival footage and select scenes from the directors films, selections from musical score’s, personal anecdotes, and loads of production stills make this a collage on Lang rather then a straight documentary. As a Lang biographer says in the film, you can never really know your subject, just a little more about him. Better then expected.