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Sometime in the future, the city of Metropolis is home to a Utopian society where its wealthy residents live a carefree life. One of those is Freder Fredersen. One day, he spots a beautiful woman with a group of children, she and the children quickly disappear.
Watchlist. Star Wars. Twin Peaks Fargo. Metropolis. This influential German science-fiction film presents a highly stylized futuristic city where a beautiful and cultured utopia exists above a...
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May 16, 2024 · Metropolis, German silent film, released in 1927, featuring director Fritz Lang’s vision of a grim futuristic society and containing some of the most impressive images in film history. (Read Lillian Gish’s 1929 Britannica essay on silent film.)
May 5, 2010 · Made at a time of hyperinflation in Germany, “Metropolis” offered a grandiose version of a father and son fighting for the soul of a futuristic city that nearly bankrupted the studio that...
Overview. In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. Fritz Lang. Director, Screenplay. Thea von Harbou. Novel, Screenplay. Written by Gurre on May 31, 2014.
“Metropolis” employed vast sets, 25,000 extras and astonishing special effects to create two worlds: the great city of Metropolis, with its stadiums, skyscrapers and expressways in the sky, and the subterranean workers’ city, where the clock face shows 10 hours to cram another day into the work week.
Metropolis. With more than 25 minutes of rediscovered footage, this restoration of “Metropolis” is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang’s influential sci-fi masterpiece about a privileged young man who falls in love with an ethereal woman and discovers that the futuristic city in which they live is on the brink of revolution and implosion.
