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Section: 2020: Back to the Future-The Magic of Film Tricks
Metropolis (1926)
Metropolis: city of the future, technological marvel, and symbol of progress. In 2027, riots break out between dissatisfied workers and the wealthy living in luxury. Frederick, the ruler's son, learns firsthand the inhuman conditions on which his father's city stands, and falls in love with Mary, who preaches to the workers about a better world. However, Maria is captured by a mad scientist who creates a robot copy of her. The city's destruction is nigh…
| Country | Germany |
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| Year | 1926 |
| Duration | 148 min |
| Rating | 12 |
| Language | English |
| Subtitle | Czech |
| Directed by | Fritz Lang |
| Screenplay | Thea von Harbou; Fritz Lang |
| Director of Photography | Günther Rittau; Karl Freund |
| Music | Gottfried Huppertz |
| Edited by | Fritz Lang |
| Contact | Universum Film AG |
Biography
He was an American filmmaker of Austrian origin. In Berlin, he made the silent diptych Die Nibelungen (1924), the sci-fi Metropolis (1927), and his first sound film M (1931). In the USA he shot, e.g. the dramas Big Heat (1953) and When the City Sleeps (1956).