Fritz Lang
LEGACY : A master of dark and shadowy atmospheres and heart-pounding psychological thriller such as "M" and the "Dr Mabuse" movies, this father of Expressionist Cinema paved the way that would lead to the success of film-noir in America and Hitchcock's suspense movies. But Lang is also the director of one of the greatest Sci-fi movies ever "Metropolis", a high-scaled futuristic epic tale with exciting and intriguing social and religious undertones. With his extraordinary use of imagery and richness in content, Lang is perhaps the first director who understood that the power of movie-making could go beyond the limits of mass entertainment, a film that shows something is good, but if it says something, it's even better.