Brigitte Helm
Maria/The Robot (AKA Futura)
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(This is the synopsis of the full 150 minute version) PROLOGUE The film is set in the year 2026, in the extraordinary Gothic skyscrapers of a corporate city-state, the Metropolis of the title. Society has been divided into two rigid groups: one of rich planners or thinkers, who live in luxury on the surface of Earth in the lush skyscrapers; the other of workers, who live underground, toiling ...
Mar 28, 1998 · Generally considered the first great science-fiction film, "Metropolis" (1927) fixed for the rest of the century the image of a futuristic city as a hell of scientific progress and human despair. From this film, in various ways, descended not only “Dark City” but “ Blade Runner ,” “ The Fifth Element ,” “Alphaville,” “ Escape ...
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 workers. When ...
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Dec 25, 2022 · Fritz Lang and his assistants stage a shot featuring the film’s robot. Metropolis Premieres Final editing was performed during the fall of 1926, and on January 10th, 1927, Metropolis had its gala premiere in Berlin. An estimated fifteen thousand people saw it over the first few weeks.
May 5, 2010 · A scene from the newly recovered footage of Fritz Lang's 1927 “Metropolis.” ... An Argentine film distributor, Adolfo Wilson, happened to be in Berlin when the film had its premiere, liked ...
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. Austrian director Fritz Lang's German Expressionistic masterpiece helped to develop the science-fiction genre, with innovative imagery from cinematographer Karl Freund, art design by Otto Hunte, Erich ...
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name. It stars Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Brigitte Helm. Erich Pommer produced it in the Babelsberg Studio for Universum Film A.G. (UFA).
