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Metropolis is governed by Joh Fredersen, a businessman and ruler who has no interest in listening to the needs of the working class, and cares only about keeping his city running as usual. Fredersen's son, Freder, is a young idealist who is sitting in his garden one day, when a woman from the workers' city, Maria, wanders in with a group of ...
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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.)
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The great future city of Metropolis in the film is inhabited by two distinct classes: the industrialists live off the fat of the land, supported by the workers who live under the city and endure a bare-bones existence of backbreaking work. The story concerns a forbidden love between Freder (played by Gustav Fröhlich), a young man from the industrialist class, and Maria (Brigitte Helm), an activist who preaches against the divide between the two classes. The subterfuge and deceit involving a robot duplicate of Maria culminate in a revolution that quickly spells disaster for all involved.
Despite advances in filmmaking technology, no other film has surpassed Metropolis in terms of its impact on production design. Its influence can be seen in many subsequent science fiction films, including Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) and Terry Gilliam’s Brazil (1985). Lang’s eye for magnificent set pieces and special effects resulted in memorable images, notably the immense skyscrapers that dominate the skyline of Metropolis and the scenes in which the robot takes on Maria’s features.
•Studio: Universum Film AG (UFA)
•Director: Fritz Lang
•Producer: Erich Pommer
•Writers: Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou
•Brigitte Helm (Maria/The Robot)
•Gustav Fröhlich (Freder)
•Alfred Abel (Joh Fredersen)
•Rudolf Klein-Rogge (Rotwang)
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Metropolis. (1927 film) Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang [6] [7] from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name (which was intentionally written as a treatment ).
- 10 January 1927
- Gottfried Huppertz
- 5.3 million ℛ︁ℳ︁ (estimated) (equivalent to €21 million 2021)
- Erich Pommer
Mar 28, 1998 · The movie has a plot that defies common sense, but its very discontinuity is a strength. It makes "Metropolis" hallucinatory--a nightmare without the reassurance of a steadying story line. Few films have ever been more visually exhilarating. Generally considered the first great science-fiction film, "Metropolis" (1927) fixed for the rest of the ...
Synopsis. (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 ...
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.
