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Release Date:
13 March 1927 (USA)
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Tagline:
There can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.
Plot:
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. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
2 wins
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2 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(60 articles)
'Red Cliff' Just the Latest Film Re-Edited for American Consumption
(From CinemaSpy. 26 November 2009, 9:10 PM, PST)
TCM Classic Film Festival: A Star Is Born, Metropolis, Breathless, 2001
(From Alternative Film Guide. 18 November 2009, 2:23 PM, PST)
(From CinemaSpy. 26 November 2009, 9:10 PM, PST)
TCM Classic Film Festival: A Star Is Born, Metropolis, Breathless, 2001
(From Alternative Film Guide. 18 November 2009, 2:23 PM, PST)
User Comments:
Restored Kino DVD changed my view of this film.
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Alfred Abel | ... | Joh Fredersen |
| Gustav Fröhlich | ... | Freder, Joh Fredersen's son |
| Rudolf Klein-Rogge | ... | C. A. Rotwang, the inventor |
| Fritz Rasp | ... | The Thin Man |
| Theodor Loos | ... | Josaphat |
| Erwin Biswanger | ... | 11811 |
| Heinrich George | ... | Grot, the guardian of the Heart Machine |
| Brigitte Helm | ... | Maria / The Robot |
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Runtime:
153 min | Germany:147 min (2001 restored version) | Germany:210 min (premiere cut) | Germany:80 min (Giorgio Moroder version) | Germany:93 min (re-release version) | USA:114 min (25 fps) (1927 cut version) | USA:123 min (2002 Murnau Foundation 75th aniversary restored version) | Spain:118 min (DVD edition) | USA:117 min
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Colour:
Black and White (tinted)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital (1995 restored version) |
Silent (original release)
Certification:
Germany:12 (video rating) (re-release) |
West Germany:16 (theatrical re-release) (1962) |
Germany:18 (original rating) (1927) |
Germany:o.Al. (DVD re-rating) |
Iceland:L |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:G |
Canada:G |
Chile:TE |
Norway:12 (1986) |
Peru:PT |
Portugal:17 (original rating) |
Portugal:M/6 (DVD rating) |
South Korea:12 (DVD rating) |
Spain:T (DVD rating) |
Sweden:11 (re-release) |
Sweden:15 (original rating) |
UK:A (original rating) |
UK:PG (video rating)
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Trivia:
When Rotwang shows Fredersen the robot, it is Brigitte Helm, not a stunt performer, inside the robot costume.
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Goofs:
Continuity: When Fredersen and Rotwang leave Rotwang's laboratory to observe Maria's secret meeting, they descend a spiral staircase that spirals clockwise. When they reach the bottom of the stairs, they are seen descending a spiral staircase that spirals counterclockwise. This is repeated when Freder uses the same staircase later in the film.
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Quotes:
Maria:
"We shall build a tower that will reach to the stars!" Having conceived Babel, yet unable to build it themselves, they had thousands to build it for them. But those who toiled knew nothing of the dreams of those who planned. And the minds that planned the Tower of Babel cared nothing for the workers who built it...
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Ghost Busters (1984)
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Soundtrack:
Here She Comes
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FAQ
A Note Regarding SpoilersIs "Metropolis" based on a book?
How did they shoot the rings around the machine when it was transforming into the guise of Maria?
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I doubt that I'd ever seen anything resembling a "complete" version of METROPOLIS before, though certain of its scenes were familiar to me, if only as used and abused in such films as Diane Keaton's HEAVEN (1987). In any case, whatever I had seen before had nothing like the clarity and beauty of the Kino restoration. I expected to be distracted by the restoration's technique of concise written descriptions of missing sequences, but the narrative coherence that these provided was definitely worth it. As "exaggerated" as the style of acting seems by contemporary standards, some performances, such as the Master of the city, are amazingly nuanced and layered, and Brigitte Helm is stunning as both Maria and her evil clone. The meticulous design of the film, the unerring camera placement and Lang's muscular choreography of the crowd scenes are breathtaking. I'd thought of METROPOLIS as a curiosity ("important" = "dull") but now I've come to appreciate it as the seminal work it has always been.