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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 ...
Feb 10, 2022 · Originally published in Issue #5. A gleaming android stares mechanically at the viewer, its round, lidless eyes glowing with the light of some unexplained inner mechanism. A subterranean city peopled by the poor, ruled by a totalitarian state above. A wild-haired scientist bedecked in a white lab coat works feverishly at the controls of some ...
Directed by Fritz Lang, the father of science fiction film, Metropolis is set in the dystopian future of 2000, where hyper-capitalism has taken over society, perpetuating a brutal class divide. The film opens by displaying the two contrasting locations of ‘The City of Workers’ and ‘Club of the Sons.’ ‘The City of Workers’ located in ...
Metrópolis. (filme) Pôster original. Metropolis ( bra / prt: Metrópolis) [ 2][ 3] é um filme de ficção científica alemão de lançado em 1927, dirigido pelo cineasta austríaco Fritz Lang. Foi, na época, a mais cara produção até então filmada na Europa, e é considerado, por especialistas, um dos grandes expoentes do expressionismo ...
Plot Summary. German writer Thea Von Harbou published Metropolis in 1925. It is a love story that crosses class lines, as well as a novelistic exploration of social formation. Fitz Lang, Von Harbou's husband, based his 1927 classic film, Metropolis, on this book. The story begins in the year 2026.
