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Metropolis (DVD, 2005)
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Fritz Lang's Metropolis is perhaps the most famous German film of all time, and certainly one of the most influential of all silent films. In its lifetime it has been: drastically re-edited (shortly after release); unseen for decades; revisioned with a modern music score in the 1980s; and thanks to the work of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung and a network of archives all over the world, restored in 2001. This restoration of Metropolis is almost certainly the most complete and authentic version possible of Lang's original 1927 vision.From the Contributor Metropolis takes place in 2026, where people are divided into two groups: poor workers living beneath the ground and the rich who enjoy a futuristic city of luxury.
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Product Information
Metropolis is based in 2026, where society is divided into two clear groups: poor workers are forced to live underground, while the rich enjoy the futuristic life of luxury. Serves as a powerful parody of contemporary class divide.Product Identifiers
ProducerFritz Lang
EAN5060000400946
eBay Product ID (ePID)44101977
Product Key Features
Film/TV TitleMetropolis
ActorAlfred Abel, Brigitte Helm
DirectorFritz Lang
Subtitle LanguageEnglish\French\Italian\Spanish
FormatDVD
Release Year2005
FeaturesBlack & White, Original 1927 Orchestral Score By Gottfried Huppertz Newly Arranged By Berndt Heller\Full Length Audio Commentary By Enno Patalas\Booklet Featuring Restoration Notes\The Metropolis Case A Making Of Documentary\Restoration Documentary\Production Stills\Posters\Costume Designs\Stills Of Missing Scenes\Architectural Sketches\German Intertitles, With Subtitles
Aspect Ratio1.33 Full Screen
GenreSci-Fi & Fantasy, General
Run Time118 Mins
Additional Product Features
CertificatePG
Number of Discs2
Country/Region of ManufactureGermany
Additional InformationMETROPOLIS, a visionary and elaborate spectacle by director Fritz Lang is an epic projection of a futuristic city divided into a working and an elite class. Its exhilarating climax brings the city to its knees, as the classes clash against each other. In the 21st-Century, a de-humanized proletariat labors non-stop in a miserable subterranean city beneath a luxurious city of mile-high skyscrapers, flying automobiles, palatial architectural idylls, tubes and tunnels. With stunningly inventive special effects, Lang's allegorical narrative and architectural vision creates a highly stylized vision of a not-so-unlikely future (especially for 1926 when the film was made.) As the elite frolic above the clouds, thousands of miserable workers toil night and day inside the belly of the gigantic machine that runs the entire city. Metropolis is controlled by a sinister authoritarian whose son, Freder, rejects his father's callous philosophy and attitude towards laborers. Meek though they are, the workers are encouraged by Maria, a wistful young woman who wills her comrades to embrace patience and silent strength. Upon discovering her influence upon the workers, a mad scientist kidnaps Maria and creates a robot in her image that will incite the workers to revolt. As Freder races against time to save Maria and curtail the damage done by her doppelganger robot, Metropolis is enveloped in chaos and the classes are brought together in a breathtaking and highly moralistic climax.
Movie/TV TitleMetropolis
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- 12 Sep, 2021
Hard work
The process of buying the disc was easy, it arrived quickly, in good order and the disc played perfectly. I bought it because it appeared on several lists of 100 best films. That must be because it is important in the history of the cinema but in a heavily cut form lasting two hours that seems like overkill. Because it is a silent film communication has to come from the occasional written information on the screen and from the acting. In this case the need to communicate caused continual melodramatic poses such 'How Horrible' -- with staring eyes and arms outstretched. Wearing, over two hours, and not the only way to communicate as other silent films show. The basic plot is that the workers, an indistinct mass, are fed into the machine which powers/runs the world in ten hour shifts, and then released to a life in tower blocks. The manager's son revolts against this and the revolt spreads. What the final result was I am not clear. I did watch the whole film but I did not enjoy it and it was hard work.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 05 Jul, 2023
Great original sc fi
I am a big sci fi fan and did not know I could get this old movie I am so well pleased thanksVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 22 Sep, 2021
disturbing but good
A present for my Son in law - it took me by surprise I didn't think he'd like it - but he didVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 08 May, 2019
Good movie
Because I purchased it as a giftVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 30 Nov, 2017
Metropolis
Great old film way ahead of its timeVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 04 Nov, 2020
Best and First Sci-fi film
As aboveVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 27 Feb, 2023
Black and white gold
The original classic by which so many others are madeVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 18 Nov, 2020
Classic German film
Classic German filmVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 07 Apr, 2016
Classic
Enjoyable, innovative and a genuine classic film. Highly Recommend - especially if studying film or literature.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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