Editing Fritz Lang (section)

===Last films (1959–1963)===
Lang, as his health worsened with age, found it difficult to find congenial production conditions and backers in Hollywood and contemplated retirement. The German producer [[Artur Brauner]] had expressed interest in remaking ''[[The Indian Tomb (1921 film)|The Indian Tomb]]'' (from an original story by Thea von Harbou, that Lang had developed in the 1920s which had ultimately been directed by [[Joe May]]),<ref>{{cite journal |last=Plass |first=Ulrich |title=Dialectic of Regression: Theodor W Adorno and Fritz Lang |journal=[[Telos (journal)|Telos]] |volume=149 |page=131 |date=Winter 2009}}</ref> so Lang returned to Germany<ref name="gold195912">{{cite news |url=https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1959-12/Galaxy_1959_12#page/n5/mode/2up |title=Of All Things |work=Galaxy |date=December 1959 |access-date=15 June 2014 |author=Gold, H.L. |page=6}}</ref> to make his "Indian Epic" (consisting of ''[[The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959 film)|The Tiger of Eschnapur]]'' and ''[[The Indian Tomb (1959 film)|The Indian Tomb]]'').

Following the production, Brauner was preparing for a remake of ''[[The Testament of Dr. Mabuse]]'' when Lang approached him with the idea of adding a new original film to the series. The result was ''[[The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse]]'' (1960), whose success led to a series of new Mabuse films produced by Brauner (including the remake of ''The Testament of Dr. Mabuse''), though Lang did not direct any of the sequels. Lang was approaching blindness during the production,<ref>[[Robert Bloch]]. "In Memoriam: Fritz Lang" in Bloch's ''Out of My Head''. Cambridge, MA: NESFA Press, 1986, 171–80</ref> and it was his final project as director.

In 1963, he appeared as himself in [[Jean-Luc Godard]]'s film ''[[Contempt (film)|Contempt]]''.