Brigitte Helm
Maria/The Robot (AKA Futura)
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Metropolis is a wonderful city, high above the ground its towers stand. The people prosper, the economy is flourishing, the suspended streets are busy. But Metropolis also has a great secret, so hidden that not even Freder Fredersen, son of founder John Fredersen knows about it. He is spending his free time in the Eternal Gardens, when suddenly ...
Metropolis. 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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Jun 2, 2010 · The opening shots of the restored “Metropolis” are so crisp and clear they come as a jolt. This mistreated masterpiece has been seen until now mostly in battered prints missing footage that was, we now learn, essential. Because of a 16mm print discovered in 2008 in Buenos Aires, it stands before us as more or less the film that Fritz Lang ...
Fritz Lang. Director, Screenplay. Thea von Harbou. Novel, Screenplay. Written by CinemaSerf on June 6, 2022. 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.
Aug 30, 2014 · Metropolis contains such magnificent visuals that all else about the film recedes, allowing its all-consuming mythical status to take over.A technical masterwork of the Silent Era by Austrian director Fritz Lang, the 1927 picture’s incredible, cutting-edge special effects and futurist imagery have become immeasurably iconographic and made the picture a benchmark of influential science ...
May 5, 2010 · “ ‘Metropolis’ is the most iconic silent picture of its day, mainly because of the visual ambition and virtuosity of the film itself,” said Noah Isenberg, editor of “Weimar Cinema,” a ...
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 ...
