Metropolis

+ intro by filmmaker Gerald Fox

A scientist has designed a robot that threatens to inspire a revolution in Fritz Lang’s Expressionistic masterpiece.

  • Director

    Fritz Lang

  • With

    Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich

  • Germany 1926. 149min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

  • With pre-recorded score

Fritz Lang’s expressionistic masterpiece, tells the story of Freder, the son of the master of Metropolis who tries, through his love for the heroine Maria, to bring peace to the torn city. Lang conveys Freder’s nightmarish vision of a destroyed underground factory as a symbolic, grotesque deity architecturally and the film’s stylistic techniques and design have influenced directors throughout cinema history.

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