Metropolis / F.W. Murnau Stiftung in association with ZDF and ARTE ; Transit Film ; an UFA production distributed by Parufamet ; director, Fritz Lang ; screenplay, Thea von Harbou.
Freder Fredersen is the son of Joh Fredersen, who reigns over the great city of Metropolis in the year 2026. The younger Fredersen is surprised to discover his lifestyle has been built on the unseen, but backbreaking, labor of an entire class of workers who tend the machines that make the city run,...
| Uniform Title: | Metropolis (Motion picture : 1927). English. |
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| Language: | English |
| Language of the Original: |
German |
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Silent film with English intertitles and music score. |
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[New York, N.Y.] :
Kino International,
[2010]
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| Edition: | [2010 restored version]. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 148 min.)) : sound, black and white. |
| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Summary: |
Freder Fredersen is the son of Joh Fredersen, who reigns over the great city of Metropolis in the year 2026. The younger Fredersen is surprised to discover his lifestyle has been built on the unseen, but backbreaking, labor of an entire class of workers who tend the machines that make the city run, and he descends to the subterranean levels of Metropolis in an effort to understand their lives. |
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| Note: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1927. Based on the novel by Thea von Harbou. "Soon after its premiere, Metropolis was severely shortened and altered. Since then, more than a quarter of the film was assumed to have been lost. In 2008, an almost complete version of the film was discovered in Buenos Aires. The material was heavily damaged and, because it had been printed on 16mm film stock, does not have the full-aperture silent picture ratio. Utilizing the footage from Argentina, a virtually complete Metropolis has been reconstructed and its proper editing has been restored. The text of the intertitles was taken from German censorship records and has been translated into English. In order to maintain the scale of the restored footage, the missing portion of the frame appears black. Black frames indicate points at which footage is still lost. Intertitles in a different typeface have been added to summarize the contents of the missing scenes."--Opening credits. Restoration carried out by Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Wiesbaden jointly with Deutsch Kinemathek Museum für Film und Fernsehen, Berlin in co-operation with Museo del Cine Pablo C. Ducros Hicken, Buenos Aires. Editorial restoration: Martin Koerber, Frank Strobel, Anke Wilkening. Digital image restoration: Alpha-Omega Digital, München. |
| Call Number: | PN1997 .M48 2010 Online |
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MPAA rating: Not rated |
| Credits: | Music by Gottfried Huppertz ; performed by the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin ; conducted by Frank Strobel ; set design, Otto Hunte, Erich Kettelhut, Karl Vollbrecht ; camera, Karl Freund, Günther Rittau ; sculptor, Walter Schultze-Mittendorf. |
| Cast: |
Gustav Fröhlich, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Theodor Loos, Fritz Rasp, Erwin Biswanger, Heinrich George. |
| Source of Description: |
Online resource; title from title screen (Kanopy, viewed April 20, 2021) |