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Metropolis is regarded as a pioneering science-fiction film, being among the first feature-length ones of that genre. [6] Filming took place over 17 months in 1925–26 at a cost of more than five million Reichsmarks, [7] or the equivalent of about €21 million.
With Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp. In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
In the pioneering science fiction feature film, Metropolis tells the story of man and machines living alongside one another, whether one rules the other or enslaves the other no one can truly know for sure: unless you live in the privileged The Tower of Babel.
Mar 28, 1998 · “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.
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.)
This influential German science-fiction film presents a highly stylized futuristic city where a beautiful and cultured utopia exists above a bleak underworld populated by mistreated...
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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.
Jul 5, 2020 · Directed by Fritz Lang, Metropolis remains one of the best science fiction movies ever made. Here's why it will always be relevant and influential.
Metropolis (1927) is a stylized, visually-compelling, melodramatic silent film set in the dystopic, 21st century city of Metropolis - a dialectical treatise on man vs. machine and class struggle.
May 5, 2010 · By Larry Rohter. May 4, 2010. For fans and scholars of the silent-film era, the search for a copy of the original version of Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” has become a sort of holy grail.
