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Metropolis

Metropolis

Fritz Lang


  • Country: Germany
  • Year: 1927
  • Language: Silent
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  • Runtime: 150 min.

Fritz Lang's science-fiction superproduction—presented here in its newly restored, most complete version—nearly drove the great German studio UFA into bankruptcy, but was embraced worldwide as a visionary masterwork.

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NEW RESTORATION!

Fritz Lang's science-fiction superproduction—presented here in its newly restored, most complete version—nearly drove the great German studio UFA into bankruptcy, but was embraced worldwide as a visionary masterwork. Metropolis depicts a futuristic city where the breathtakingly Babylonian skyscrapers of the rich and powerful are erected atop the hellish subterranean slums and factories of the proletarian poor. When the son of the city's ruler descends into the city's catacombs and falls in love with a saintly working-class girl (Brigitte Helm), he becomes embroiled in a nefarious scheme by a mad scientist (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) to drive the verge-of-revolt workers into an unwinnable confrontation. The apotheosis of German Expressionism, described by Luis Buñuel as a "glorious symphony of movement . . . of hitherto unimagined mechanical shapes," Metropolis' mighty mise-en-scene is akin to the perfection of a monumental machine.

Presented by TIFF in co-operation with the Goethe-Institut Toronto.

Thanks to Gary Palmucci and Don Krim, Kino.

Exclusive Engagement begins Thursday, November 11, 2020.

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