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Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang [4] [5] from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name (which was intentionally written as a treatment).
Metropolis: Directed by Fritz Lang. 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.
Jul 24, 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...
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Mar 28, 1998 · According to Patrick McGilligan's book Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast, the extras were hurled into violent mob scenes, made to stand for hours in cold water and handled more like props than human beings.
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.
Dec 25, 2022 · Nearly a hundred years since its premiere, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) continues to fascinate generations of filmgoers. Even if you’ve never seen it, you can no doubt recognize the iconic images it’s inspired in popular culture across the world.
Fritz Lang Metropolis 1927. Not on view. "An exaggerated dream of the New York skyline, multiplied a thousandfold and divested of all reality," is film critic Lotte Eisner's apt description of the Expressionist cityscape created by Lang and his team for Metropolis, about a dystopian city of the future where the working masses live underground ...
Fritz Lang claimed to have been inspired to make Metropolis by his first glimpse of the New York skyline. The result is the grandest science fiction film of the silent era (and for many years to come), a seminal prediction of a megacity where the masses work as slaves for the good of a ruling elite.
Feb 10, 2022 · An archetype of the German Expressionist movement, Metropolis was birthed in the travails of Germany’s cataclysmic defeat in the First World War. From the start, Fritz Lang's Metropolis was a controversial, enigmatic, and ultimately incomplete entity. Its director added to the movie’s legend.
