Greatest Films of All Time 2022: 67=

Metropolis

This vision of a future society in revolt is one of the towering achievements of Fritz Lang’s career.

  • Director

    Fritz Lang

  • With

    Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge

  • Germany 1927. 150min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

  • English subtitles

  • With score

Expensive. Magnificent. Timeless. Fritz Lang’s masterpiece works on big ideas and scaled-up vision – an art deco future with gothic undertones. Essentially a parable, it foresees a logical conclusion to the processes of industrialisation and urbanisation in a dystopia where society has stratified into a few super-rich, who live in godlike luxury high above the city, and the masses of exploited and expendable workers who labour in the lower levels.

Bryony Dixon

Also screening at BFI Southbank.

The screening on Sunday 15 January will feature live piano accompaniment and be introduced by Bryony Dixon, BFI Curator. Part of our Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time seaon.

Part of our Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time season.