Metropolis is undoubtedly the best-known of all German silent films. Conscious of the many myths surrounding negatives and lost scenes, as well as the various «restorations» that have appeared over the years, the German Bun-desarchiv and the Munich Film Museum, together with the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung, decided to collaborate on a version informed by authentic research, exhaustive use of film archives, and proper laboratory processes. With most of the credit going to restorer Martin Koerber, the result is the most definitive version of Metropolis that is currently possible, recognizing the loss of perhaps a quarter of Langs original creation, yet recapturing the narrative flow and spectacular photographic quality of those first prints.
Metropolis
Metropolis
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- Direction: Fritz Lang
- Script: Thea Von Harbou, Fritz Lang, based on the novel by Thea Von Harbou
- Cinematography: Karl Freund, Güner Rittau
- Music: Βernd Schultheis
- Actors: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp, Theodor Loos
- Costumes: Aenne Willkomm
- Format: 35mm
- Color: B&W
- Production Country: Germany
- Duration: 147'
Fritz Lang
He was born in Vienna, in 1890. After the First World War he moved to Berlin, where he worked as a writer and then as a director at Ufa and then at Nero-Film. In 1933, the Nazi regime banned The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, and Lang left for Paris and then emigrated to the US. Over the next 20 years, he directed numerous American Films. He died in 1976.
Filmography
1919 Die Spinnen
1921 Der müde Tod
1922 Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler
1924 Die Nibelungen
1931 M
1933 Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
1936 Fury
1944 Ministry of Fear
1945 Scarlet Street
1952 Rancho Notorious
1953The Big Heat
1954 Human Desire
1956 While the City Sleeps
1960 Die Tausend Auge des Dr. Mabuse
