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Film Description
THE science fiction film, set in a radically divided society in which workers' dehumanization is taken to the ultimate degree. The favoured live above the ground, the workers below. An inventor creates a robot doppelganger for the saintly young woman preaching brotherhood to the masses and the trouble begins. Who will be the mediator between the brain and the hands and prevent the society tearing itself apart? As Lang admitted, its politics may be naive but the fantastic realisation of a future society is peerless.
Film Information
| Director | Fritz Lang | ||||
| Starring | Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustav Frohlich, Fritz Rasp
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| Genre | Silent Film
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| Country | Germany | Language | SILENT | Year | 1926 |
DVD Extras
The extensive 2001 official restoration presented for the first time in the UK or USA with original German intertitles; Original 1927 orchestral score by Gottfried Huppertz, newly arranged by Berndt Heller; Audio commentary by film historian Enno Patalas; The Metropolis Case (2002) - a 44-minute documentary by Enno Patalas on the making of Metropolis; A 9-minute restoration documentary (2002) with Martin Koerber; Production stills, posters, costume designs, stills of missing scenes, and architectural sketches; 28-page booklet with extensive restoration notes.
Technical Details
| Certificate | PG | Length | 118 mins | Label | EUREK | ||
| Cat No | EKA40094 | Format | DVD | Black & White | |||
| Region | 2 | Aspect | 4:3 | ||||
| Subtitles | English. | ||||||
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Review by anonymous on 9th January 2003
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis was a landmark in film history and had a huge influence on the development of science fiction and fantasy films (think Blade Runner, Star Wars and Batman for example). It is also a terrifically enjoyable film with a great story, based on the novel by Mrs Lang – Thea Von Harbour, full of excitement, romance, amazing special effects and set designs to die for. This restoration, initiated by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung was shown at the Berlin Film Festival to wide acclaim and is accompanied by the original 1920’s score written by Gottfried Huppertz. Metropolis was conceived as a mega project with a length of 153 mins at its premier in January 1927. However it failed at the box office and was cut to a more modest size in the USA by Paramount with the playwright Channing Pollack, and then again in Germany by UFA, the German production company. A quarter of the original film has been entirely lost. This version, lovingly pieced together by various film archives, gets very close to the original story and gives the best possible picture. It is now possible to view Metropolis again with much of the original sequencing and a photographic quality near to that of the 1927 premiere.
Watch it and marvel.
Review by Anon on
The breath-taking, nightmarish cityscape, inspired by the towering Manhattan skyline, attests to Langs artistic vision. Here is the maddest of mad scientists, a welter of mythological symbolism, and a robot that is both alarmingly sexual, and the forerunner of the prissy C-3PO. Whether taken as a humanistic political tract or simply a lavish and thrilling spectacle, this is something that nobody with even the faintest interest in the genre, in silent cinema, or in film itself, should fail to see.
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