Brigitte Helm
Maria/The Robot (AKA Futura)
Search results
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. The heroine was made to jump from high places, and when she was burned at a stake, Lang used real flames.
Apr 23, 2024 · Fritz Lang, Austrian-born American motion-picture director whose films, dealing with fate and people’s inevitable working out of their destinies, are considered masterpieces of visual composition and expressionistic suspense. His most notable movies included Metropolis (1927), M (1931), and The Big Heat (1953).
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.
Jun 2, 2010 · 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. The heroine was made to jump from high places, and when she was burned at a stake, Lang used real flames.
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.
Rated 4.5/5 Stars • 12/10/23. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • 12/09/23. Rated 5/5 Stars • 12/07/23. Fritz Lang. Director. Brigitte Helm. Maria. Alfred Abel. Johhan (Joh) Fredersen. Gustav Fröhlich....
- (138)
- Sci-Fi, Drama
