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Metropolis (1927) 8.3
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8.3/10 from 86,288 users
Metascore: 98/100
Reviews: 379 user | 244 critic | 14 from Metacritic.com 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. Director:Fritz Lang |
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Sometime in the future, the city of Metropolis is home to a Utopian society where its wealthy residents live a carefree life. One of those is Freder Fredersen. One day, he spots a beautiful woman with a group of children, she and the children who quickly disappear. Trying to follow her, he, oblivious to such, is horrified to find an underground world of workers, apparently who run the machinery which keeps the above ground Utopian world functioning. One of the few people above ground who knows about the world below is Freder's father, Joh Fredersen, who is the founder and master of Metropolis. Freder learns that the woman is Maria, who espouses the need to join the "hands" - the workers - to the "head" - those in power above - by a mediator or the "heart". Freder wants to help the plight of the workers in the want for a better life. But when Joh learns of what Maria is espousing and that Freder is joining their cause, Joh, with the assistance of an old colleague and now nemesis named ... Written by Huggo
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There can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator. See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
GermanyLanguage:
GermanRelease Date:
13 March 1927 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Metrópolis See more »Box Office
Budget:
DEM 6,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$1,070 (USA) (8 August 2003)Gross:
$26,435 (USA) (11 November 2011)Company Credits
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| (premiere cut) | (re-release) | (1927 cut) | (2002 Murnau Foundation 75th aniversary restored) | (DVD edition) (2002 Murnau Foundation 75th aniversary restored) | (Giorgio Moroder) | (2010 restored)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1
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Music by Giorgio Moroder
Lyrics by Billy Squier
Produced by Giorgio Moroder, Billy Squier and Mack
Performed by Billy Squier
Courtesy of Capitol Records
(from the 1984 re-release)
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In certain versions of the film, Fritz Rasp is credited as playing 'Slim', not the Thin Man. See more »Goofs
In the Kino Video DVD, the cityscape shot that ends in Chapter 7 (at around 1 min) is cut short. It ends before a dirigible crosses the top of the shot flying from right to left. The dirigible appears in the Madacy Video DVD in Chapter 3 (at around 21 mins). See more »Crazy Credits
Restoration based on the version in the Filmmuseum Munich and material preserved in the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv See more »Soundtracks
On Your OwnMusic by Giorgio Moroder
Lyrics by Billy Squier
Produced by Giorgio Moroder, Billy Squier and Mack
Performed by Billy Squier
Courtesy of Capitol Records
(from the 1984 re-release)
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In the future, the society of Metropolis is divided in two social classes: the workers, who live in the underground below the machines level, and the dominant classes that lives in the surface. The workers are controlled by their leader Maria (Brigitte Helm), who wants to find a mediator between the upper class lords and the workers, since she believes that a heart would be necessary between brains and muscles. Maria meets Freder Fredersen (Gustav Fröhlich), the son of the Lord of Metropolis Johhan Fredersen (Alfred Abel), in a meeting of the workers, and they fall in love for each other. Meanwhile, Johhan decides that the workers are no longer necessary for Metropolis, and uses a robot pretending to be Maria to promote a revolution of the working class and eliminate them.
"Metropolis" is a fantastic futuristic view of the fight of classes. When "Metropolis" was shot, it was a romantic revolutionary period of mankind history, with socialist movements around the world. Fritz Lang directed and wrote the screenplay of this masterpiece certainly inspired in this historical moment and defending a position of agreement and understanding between both sides, showing that they need each other. I wonder how this great director was able to produce such special effects in 1927, with very primitive cameras and equipment. The city of Metropolis is visibly inspired in New York. The performance of Brigitte Helm is stunning in her double role, and this movie is mandatory for any person that says that like cinema as an art. My vote is ten.
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