Editing Fritz Lang (section)

===Emigration===
According to Lang, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called Lang to his offices to inform him that ''The Testament of Dr. Mabuse'' was being banned but, nevertheless, he was so impressed by Lang's abilities as a filmmaker (especially ''Metropolis''), that he offered Lang the position of head of German film studio UFA. Lang said it was during that meeting he had decided to leave for Paris – but that the banks had closed by the time the meeting was over. Lang claimed that, after selling his wife's jewelry, he fled by train to Paris that evening, leaving most of his money and personal possessions behind.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fritz Lang Biography |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000485/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm |website=IMDb |access-date=2019-09-05}}</ref><ref>Michel Ciment: ''Fritz Lang, Le meurtre et la loi'', Ed. Gallimard, Collection [[Découvertes Gallimard]] (vol. 442), 04/11/2003. The author thinks that this meeting, in fact, never happened.</ref><ref>[[Allan Havis|Havis, Allan]] (2008), ''Cult Films: Taboo and Transgression'', University Press of America, Inc., p. 10</ref><ref>Thomson, David (2012) ''The Big Screen: the story of the movies'' New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux {{ISBN|978-0-374-19189-4}} pp. 64–65; Lang's version deemed suspect</ref> Despite this, Lang's passport of the time showed that he traveled to and from Germany throughout 1933.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fritz Lang Tells the Riveting Story of the Day He Met Joseph Goebbels and Then High-Tailed It Out of Germany |url=http://www.openculture.com/2015/04/fritz-lang-tells-the-riveting-story-of-the-day-he-met-joseph-goebbels.html |website=Open Culture |access-date=29 March 2018 |date=28 April 2015}}</ref>

Lang left Berlin permanently on July 31, 1933, four months after his meeting with Goebbels and his initial departure. He moved to Paris,<ref name="KalatDVD">David Kalat, ''[https://www.criterion.com/films/721 DVD Commentary for The Testament of Dr. Mabuse]''. New York City, United States: The Criterion Collection (2004)</ref> having divorced [[Thea von Harbou]], who stayed behind, earlier in 1933.<ref name="howard hughes">{{cite book |last1=Hughes |first1=Howard |url=https://archive.org/details/outerlimitsfilmg0000hugh |title=Outer Limits: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Science-fiction Films |date=2014 |publisher=[[I.B.Tauris]] |isbn=978-1-78076-165-7 |location=New York |page=[https://archive.org/details/outerlimitsfilmg0000hugh/page/1 1] |access-date=22 January 2015 |url-access=registration}}</ref>{{sfn|McGilligan|1997|p=181}}

In Paris, Lang filmed his only French film, a version of [[Ferenc Molnár]]'s ''[[Liliom (1934 film)|Liliom]]'', starring [[Charles Boyer]]. He then moved to the United States.<ref name="KalatDVD"/>