A successful Austrian director, Lang gained worldwide acclaim with his early German expressionistic films Metropolis and M.

After making the anti-Nazi film The Last Will of Dr. Mabuse, he fled Germany in 1933, eventually settling in the US, where he revived his career.

His Hollywood films rival his earlier works in their intensity, pessimism and visual mastery.

What was Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbel's unexpected response to The Last Will of Dr. Mabuse?