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First-ever TCM Classic Film Festival to Feature Newly Restored Versions of A Star is Born (1954) and Metropolis (1927), Plus an Anniversary Screening of Breathless (1960)...Television, New Products & Services First-ever TCM Classic Film Festival to Feature Newly Restored Versions of A Star is Born (1954) and Metropolis (1927), Plus an Anniversary Screening of Breathless (1960) Festival Passes for April... In this article: TCM, A Star Is Born, Metropolis, Breathless, Hollywood, Academy Awards, Robert Osborne, Vanity Fair, Fritz Lang, and Jean-Luc Godard |
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True/Slant | November 12, 2009
Einstein in Hollywood: The untold story
...as Charles Chaplin, Mickey Mouse and Lillian Gish. "If you read my 1920 paper on critical opalescence, you will see a direct link to Lang's Metropolis, he once told colleague Max Planck. Though Einstein had never written anything besides...
In this article: Albert Einstein, Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood, Walter Wanger, MGM, Fritz Lang, and F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Computerworld Breaking News | November 10, 2009
Internet 'Emmys' -- and real dogs
...worst movies about the 'Net PC World - Ever since Fritz Lang unveiled the robot Maria in his 1927 silent-screen sci-fi classic Metropolis, computers have been part of the fabric of the movies. The Internet, however, is a newer phenomenon,...
In this article: WarGames, YouTube, Linux, Internet Movie Database, Second Life, IDC, Philip Rosedale, Fritz Lang, and Miranda July
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Wired: Underwire | November 04, 2009
Your Favorite Sci-Fi Flicks, From Metropolis Through the '50s
...on the list. Some of the movies nominated by Wired.com readers are clearly classics, like Fritz Lang's silent 1927 masterpiece, Metropolis (pictured above), or 1956's Forbidden Planet. They obviously fit on any serious sci-fi fan's list...
In this article: Wired.com, Fritz Lang, Dog, Lassie Come Home, Kino, Forbidden Planet, Netflix, Lassie, and Jar Jar Binks
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SPIEGEL ONLINE - International | October 30, 2009
Berlin Return for Lost Classic: Film Festival to Show Restored Uncut 'Metropolis'
Film Festival to Show Restored Uncut 'Metropolis' A scene from Fritz Lang's classic "Metropolis." One of the most important works in cinematic history is to be shown in its complete uncut version at next year's Berlin International Film...
In this article: Berlin, Fritz Lang, Berlin International Film Festival, Class struggle, and Unesco
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New Kerala | October 29, 2009
Restored film 'Metropolis' to be shown at Berlinale
Berlin, Oct 29 : Fritz Lang's original cut of 'Metropolis' from 1927 will return to the screen at the 60th Berlin International Festival in 2010, organisers said Thursday. The classic silent film - reconstructed and restored by the...
In this article: Fritz Lang, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin, and Buenos Aires
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Reuters | October 29, 2009
Restored Metropolis to screen at Berlin
By Scott Roxborough COLOGNE, Germany (Hollywood Reporter) - A restored version of the original cut of Fritz Lang's silent classic "Metropolis" will premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 12, organizers said...
In this article: Berlin, Fritz Lang, Berlin International Film Festival, Cologne, Buenos Aires, and Germany
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Kansas City Star | October 28, 2009
Columbia Pictures collection sheds light on film noir genre
...a gangland chief and the city officials who are his puppets. With Lee Marvin, Gloria Grahame. Directed by the great Fritz Lang ("Metropolis," "Fury"). The best of this bunch. •"The Sniper" (1952): A misogynistic sociopath (Arthur Franz)...
In this article: Eddie Muller, James Ellroy, San Francisco, Columbia Pictures, Suicide, Car bomb, Heroin, Michael Mann, and Stirling Silliphant
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The Oklahoma Daily | October 01, 2009
School of Music to hold weekend celebration
...of their art," Curtis said. The School of Music will also offer a special screening of the science fiction and classic silent film "Metropolis" along with live theater organ accompaniment by organist Clark Wilson on Saturday evening, says...
In this article: E mail and University of Oklahoma
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The Red and Black | September 30, 2009
flick picks: The Room, Surrogates
Movies about future societies and their technologies have reappeared and even plagued pop culture ever since Fritz Lang's 1927 release of "Metropolis." This decade's additions, such as "Minority Report," "I, Robot" and "AI: Artificial...
In this article: The Room, Tommy Wiseau, Avatar, IP Address, DVD, and Citizen Kane
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Lang's Lunar Lady: The Woman Who Got to the Moon First
...most critics enjoyed it, British science fiction writer H.G. Wells unkindly described the film as "hopelessly silly." The year after "Metropolis," Lang made a thriller, "Spy," starring Willy Fritsch as the secret agent and Gerda Maurus...
In this article: Fritz Lang, Willy Ley, Woman in the Moon, Moon, Apollo, Willy Fritsch, Capitalism, and DVD
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Metropolis is a silent science fiction film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Lang and Thea von Harbou. Lang and von Harbou, who were married, wrote the screenplay in , and the story was novelized by von Harbou in 1926. It is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and examines a common science fiction theme of the day: the social crisis between workers and owners in capitalism. The film stars Alfred Abel as the leader of the city, Gustav Fröhlich as his son, who tries to mediate between the elite caste and the workers, Brigitte Helm as both the pure-at-heart worker Maria and the debased robot version of her, and Rudolf Klein-Rogge as the mad scientist who created the robot.
Metropolis was produced in Germany in the Babelsberg Studios by Universum Film A.G. (UFA) and released in 1927 during a stable period of the Weimar Republic. The most expensive film of its time, it cost approximately 7 million Reichsmark to make. The film was cut substantially after its German premiere, and there have been several efforts to restore it. Also, the American copyright lapsed in , which eventually led to a proliferation of versions being released on video. == Plot ==
Note: There are multiple versions of Metropolis. The original, longest version remained unseen except for its initial premiere and release in Germany in 1927. Of this version, a quarter of the footage was believed to be permanently lost, but the German paper Die Zeit reported on 2 July that a film museum in Argentina had turned up what scholars believe to be a print of Metropolis containing the missing footage. The American version, shortened and re-written by Channing Pollock, is the most commonly known and discussed.
- Name:
- Metropolis
- Country of Origin:
- Germany
- Release Date:
- March 06, 1927
- Directed By:
- Fritz Lang
- Produced by:
- Erich Pommer
- Written By:
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- Fritz Lang
- Thea von Harbou
- Cinematography:
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- Günther Rittau
- Walter Ruttmann
- Karl Freund
- Music By:
- Gottfried Huppertz (orig. version)
- Distributed By:
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- Paramount Pictures (US)
- UFA (Germany)
- Length:
- (1927 US cut version)
- Language:
- Silent film
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