Metropolis
August Auteurs
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2h 28m
Directed by Fritz Lang • Silent • 1927 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustav Froelich, Alfred Abel
With more than 25 minutes of rediscovered footage, this restoration of “Metropolis” is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang’s influential sci-fi masterpiece about a privileged young man who falls in love with an ethereal woman and discovers that the futuristic city in which they live is on the brink of revolution and implosion.
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