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Metropolis (1927)

Unrated

Drama/Science-Fiction · 2h 33m · 3/6/1927

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There can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

Description

Fritz Lang's most famous silent film uses science fiction and spectacular special effects to tell a story of biting social criticism. In a futuristic time and place, an above ground city of lightness, culture and respectability is kept going only by the enslaved proletariat laboring beneath in the underground city: a nightmarish, cruel, and dark place. An innovative and influential film in its day and now considered one of the hippest films of the sci-fi genre.

Status

Released

Language

Language_Deutsch

Country

Germany

Production Company

Universum Film (UFA)

Budget

$6000000

Revenue

$1236166

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Cast

Alfred Abel

Joh Fredersen

Gustav Fröhlich

Freder, Joh Fredersen's son

Rudolf Klein-Rogge

C. A. Rotwang, the inventor

Fritz Rasp

The Thin Man

Theodor Loos

Josaphat

Erwin Biswanger

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Heinrich George

Grot, the guardian of the Heart Machine

Brigitte Helm

Maria

Fritz Alberti

Creative human - man who convinces Babel (uncredited)

Grete Berger

Working woman (uncredited)

Olly Boeheim

Working woman (uncredited)

Max Dietze

Working man (uncredited)

Ellen Frey

Working woman (uncredited)

Beatrice Garga

Woman of Eternal Gardens (uncredited)

Heinrich Gotho

Master of Ceremonies (uncredited)

Dolly Grey

Working woman (uncredited)

Anny Hintze

Woman of Eternal Gardens (uncredited)

Georg John

Working man who causes explosion of M-Machine (uncredited)

Walter Kuehle

Working man (uncredited)

Margarete Lanner

Lady in car / Woman of Eternal Gardens (uncredited)

Rose Lichtenstein

Working woman (uncredited)

Hanns Leo Reich

Marinus (uncredited)

Arthur Reinhardt

Working man (uncredited)

Curt Siodmak

Working Man (uncredited)

Henrietta Siodmak

Working Woman (uncredited)

Olaf Storm

Jan (uncredited)

Erwin Vater

Working man (uncredited)

Rolf von Goth

Son in Eternal Gardens (uncredited)

Helen von Münchofen

Woman of Eternal Gardens (uncredited)

Helene Weigel

Working woman (uncredited)

Hilde Woitscheff

Woman of Eternal Gardens (uncredited)

Crew

Fritz Lang

Director

Thea von Harbou

Writer

Fritz Lang

Writer

Erich Pommer

Producer

Gottfried Huppertz

Music

Bernd Schultheis

Music

Karl Freund

Cinematograpy

Günther Rittau

Cinematograpy

Walter Ruttmann

Cinematograpy

Otto Hunte

Art

Erich Kettelhut

Art

Karl Vollbrecht

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