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Metropolis (1927)
German expressionist science-fiction drama film.
Set in a futuristic Million-acre city of Metropolis, a “Utopian” society where its wealthy residents live a carefree life, wealthy industrialists and business magnates and their top employees reign from 50 to 1,000-story skyscrapers, while the underground-dwelling working class toil to operate the great machines that power the city.
In this urban dystopian 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.
The silent film is regarded as a pioneering science-fiction movie, being among the first feature-length movies of that genre. Filming took place over 17 months in 1925–26 at a cost of more than five million Reichsmarks.
Metropolis met a mixed reception upon release. Critics found it visually beautiful and powerful and lauded its complex special effects, but accused its story of being naive.
Metropolis ranked 12th in Empire magazine’s “The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema” in 2010 and second in a list of the 100 greatest films of the Silent Era.
The 2002 version was awarded the New York Film Critics Circle Awards “Special Award” for the restoration.
In 2012, in correspondence with the Sight & Sound Poll, the British Film Institute called Metropolis the 35th-greatest film of all time.
| Directed by | Fritz Lang |
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| Produced by | Erich Pommer |
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| Based on | Metropolis by Thea von Harbou |
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| Music by | Gottfried Huppertz |
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| Distributed by | Parufamet |
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| Country | Germany |
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| Budget | 5.3 million Reichsmarks (estimated) (equivalent to €35 million 2009) |
| Box office | 75,000 Reichsmarks (estimated) |
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