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Metropolis is a 1925 science fiction novel by the German writer Thea von Harbou. The novel was based on the screenplay for Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis, on which von Harbou and Lang collaborated in 1924.
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 (which was intentionally written as a treatment). It stars Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Brigitte Helm.
- 10 January 1927
- Gottfried Huppertz
- 5.3 million ℛ︁ℳ︁ (estimated) (equivalent to €21 million 2021)
- Erich Pommer
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Metropolis, German silent film, released in 1927, featuring director Fritz Lang’s vision of a grim futuristic society.
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German screenwriter, novelist, director and actress who is best known for her novel and screenplay Metropolis . Born on December 27, 1888, in Tauperlitz bei Hof, Bavaria; died in West Berlin on July 1, 1954; daughter of Theodor von Harbou and Clotilde (d'Alinge) von Harbou; married Rudolf Klein-Rogge, in 1914; married Fritz Lang (a director ...
CAREER: Actor, music composer, director, and author. Worked as an actor in Düsseldorf, Weimar, Chemnitz, and Aachen, Germany, 1906-14. Worked as a scriptwriter and director for Germany's Nazi party. WRITINGS: SCREENPLAYS. (With Fritz Lang) Das wanderne Bild (also known as The Wandering Image ), May-Film, 1920.
Thea Gabriele von Harbou was a prolific German author and screenwriter, best known today for writing the screenplay of the silent film epic Metropolis (1927). She published over forty books, including novels, children’s books, and collections of short stories, essays, poems, and novellas.
