The Movie title stills collection. Metropolis. Metropolis A film by Fritz Lang, Germany, 1927 Reconstructed & Restored 2010, 150 minutes Metropolis is ruled by the powerful industrialist Joh Fredersen. He looks out from his office in the Tower of Babel at a modern, highly technicized world. Together with the children of the workers, a young woman named Maria reaches the Eternal Gardens where the sons of the city’s elite amuse themselves and where she meets Freder, Joh Fredersen’s son. When the young man later goes on a search for the girl, he witnesses an explosion in a machine hall, where numerous workers lose their lives.
He then realizes that the luxury of the upper class is based on the exploitation of the proletariat. After the robot Maria has succeeded, a catastrophe ensues. About the Film Shortly after that 1927 release, an entire quarter of Lang’s original version was cut by Paramount for the US release, and by Ufa in Germany, an act of butchery very much against the director’s wishes. About Fritz Lang. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) The Masters of Cinema Series | Eureka! The Masters of Cinema Series February 2014 Bujalski, Wellman, Lumet, Fellini New releases : Le mani sulla città March 2014 White Dog March 2014 Roma February 2014 Serpico February 2014 Wings January 2014.
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