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Weimar Germany
8.7
/10
13,427 Ratings

Metropolis

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Directed by Fritz Lang
Germany, 1927
Drama, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
  • Silent
  • English
Weimar Germany

Synopsis

Set in a highly-stylized city where a beautiful utopia exists above a bleak underworld, privileged youth Freder discovers the grim scene beneath the surface and sets out to free the downtrodden workers with the aid of rebellious teacher Maria.

Our take

Easily one of the most iconic films ever made, Fritz Lang’s classic future shock is still thrilling. A propulsive epic and mind-blowing visual symphony, Lang’s deeply influential vision is both the foundation of sci-fi cinema and a time-honored gateway to the expressive wonders of silent film.

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Awards & Festivals

Berlin International Film Festival

1985

1989

2001

2010

Locarno International Film Festival

1961

International Film Festival Rotterdam

1975

São Paulo International Film Festival

1984

2010

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Cast & Crew

Articles from the Notebook

Interview with Fritz Lang, Beverley Hills, August 12, 1972

The full transcript of a 1972 interview with the great director, who discusses his work in Germany and Hollywood,
Michael Gould and Lloyd Chesley
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By Moroder: An Interview with Giorgio Moroder

On the soundtrack work—including films by Paul Schrader, Alan Parker, Brian De Palma, and Fritz Lang—by the great musician.
Jordan Cronk

The Forgotten: That Glaring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

In E.A. Dupont’s Varieté, Emil Jannings plays an acrobat recalling the circumstances that made him a murderer.
David Cairns
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The Best of “Movie Poster of the Day,” Part 4

More gems from around the world in this quarterly Tumblr round-up.
Adrian Curry
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Critics reviews

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The first modern blockbuster, the big-budget big bang, but it clinches that title only owing in part to its visionary grandiosity, its awesome scale, its ribald ridiculousness.
August 18, 2017
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Lang’s aerial views of choreographed crowds are positively Riefenstahlian; his sky-scraping, heavens-reaching city looks glorious as ever. Metropolis marshals all the resources of the German film industry to warn against the persuasive streamlining of mass production and new media; it must, paradoxically, be seen to be believed.
May 05, 2010
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As modern as Bauhaus yet as ancient as Zhuangzi, who warned that “where there are machine worries, there are bound to be machine hearts.” Meticulous constructions carry the sustained frenzy, all of the visual arts summoned and piled high into a fractured Tower of Babel, a panorama of pistons and gears where the camera emerges as the most ferocious mechanism of all.
January 01, 2010
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