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Metropolis is regarded as a pioneering science-fiction film, being among the first feature-length ones of that genre. [6] Filming took place over 17 months in 1925–26 at a cost of more than five million Reichsmarks, [7] or the equivalent of about €21 million.
A full restoration of Metropolis, a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration wit...
- 144 min
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- Aevolo Archive
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.
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- Drama, Sci-Fi
- Fritz Lang
- 1927-03-13
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.)
- Lee Pfeiffer
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Mar 28, 1998 · Generally considered the first great science-fiction film, “Metropolis” (1927) fixed for the rest of the century the image of a futuristic city as a hell of scientific progress and human despair.
This influential German science-fiction film presents a highly stylized futuristic city where a beautiful and cultured utopia exists above a bleak underworld populated by mistreated...
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- Sci-Fi, Drama
Dec 25, 2022 · in 2002, Metropolis was the first film admitted by UNESCO into their “Memory of the World Register.” There, it joined the ranks of other historic works of art like Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and the Gutenberg Bible.
