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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.
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.
Actors:
Heinrich George,
Rudolf Klein-Rogge,
Fritz Rasp,
Alfred Abel,
Theodor Loos,
Curt Siodmak,
Georg John,
Brigitte Helm,
Gustav Fröhlich,
Erwin Biswanger
Heinrich George
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Fritz Rasp
Alfred Abel
Theodor Loos
Curt Siodmak
10 August 1902, Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Georg John
Brigitte Helm
Gustav Fröhlich
Erwin Biswanger
Director:
Fritz Lang
Country:
Germany
Keywords:
#Alfred Abel #Brigitte Helm #Erwin Biswanger #Fritz Lang #Fritz Rasp #Gustav Fröhlich #Heinrich George #Metropolis #Metropolis (1927) #Rudolf Klein-Rogge #Theodor Loos
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May 14, 2018
For years audiences have wondered how good this film might have been had it not been edited. It turns out that it's better than anyone could ever have expected.
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February 25, 2013
One of the last examples of the imaginative -- but often monstrous -- grandeur of the Golden Period of the German film, Metropolis is a spectacular example of Expressionist design.
July 27, 2010
I have just had a sensational night at the movies, and the picture was only 83 years old.
April 01, 2014
Occasionally it strikes one that [Lang] wanted to include too much and then that all one anticipates does not appear. But at the same time the various ideas have been spliced together quite adroitly.
July 23, 2010
A fully realized work of art whose influence on science fiction, set design and symbolism can scarcely be put into words.
September 05, 2015
Lang's allegory of allegories posits humanity's progress as a collision not just of labor and management but of technology and sorcery
April 19, 2014
[VIDEO ESSAY] Although it ends with an overwrought climax, topped off with a laughably banal cliché that unites the workers with their greedy overlord, "Metropolis" is filled with stunning archetypal imagery and grand-scale spectacle.
August 21, 2017
. . . the film is still something to behold, even if the newly restored footage occasionally looks like someone ran over it with a brillo pad.
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The cinema, even here at its best, and full as it is of invention and thrill, is still only at the mental age of seventeen.
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Metropolis remains the benchmark of agenda-driven extravaganzas, stirring and fun in the right spots.
April 01, 2014
Each frame of this classic is drop-dead stunning.
July 06, 2010
Too bad that so much really artistic work was wasted on this manufactured story.
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