Metropolis

Name: Metropolis
Director: Fritz Lang
Released: 1927

Fritz Lang

1927

5.00

Synopsis

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

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Cast

Gustav FröhlichFreder Fredersen
Brigitte HelmMaria / The Machine Man
Alfred AbelJohann 'Joh' Fredersen
Rudolf Klein-RoggeC.A. Rotwang
Theodor LoosJosaphat
Fritz RaspThe Thin Man
Erwin BiswangerNo. 11811 - Georgy
Heinrich GeorgeGrot
Fritz AlbertiCreative Human - Man Who Convinces Babel (uncredited)
Grete BergerWorking Woman (uncredited)

Recommendations

100
San Francisco Chronicle
Seeing it is a time-bending experience, a way of visiting the past and glimpsing the past's idea of the future. A masterpiece of art direction, the movie has influenced our vision of the future ever since, with its imposing white monoliths and starched facades.
100
New York Magazine (Vulture)
You've seen the rest; now see the best.
100
Philadelphia Inquirer
An awesome cinema spectacle.
100
Chicago Sun-Times
Does what many great films do, creating a time, place and characters so striking that they become part of our arsenal of images for imagining the world.
100
Chicago Tribune
Trashy and glorious, the restored Metropolis is a pop epic for the ages.
100
Christian Science Monitor
Metropolis has a place in world history as well as in the annals of fantasy. Adolf Hitler was said to have loved it, and Lang eventually fled Germany for Hollywood when the Third Reich wanted him to run its movie industry. Few movies of any era offer so much varied food for thought, cinematically and politically. Its new restoration is a major motion-picture event.
90
Chicago Reader
Departing from a masterful manipulation of space, Lang transforms the futuristic city of the title into a field of dreams centered on death and sexuality.
90
The New York Times
Metropolis retains its power to overwhelm, trouble and move because it is connected to the deep anxieties of modern life as if by a high-voltage cable.

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