Metropolis
Average: 5
- ratings (3)
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Director:
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Fritz Lang
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Production:
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Universum Film (UFA)
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Year:
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1927
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Running time:
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118'
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Cast:
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Alfred Abel,
Brigitte Helm,
Gustav Fröhlich,
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
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Genre:
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Sci-Fi,
Adventure,
Thriller
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Plot synopsis:
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It is the future, and hum...
It is the future, and humans are divided into two groups: the thinkers, who make plans (but don't know how anything works), and the workers, who achieve goals (but don't have the vision). Completely separate, neither group is complete, but together they make a whole. One man from the "thinkers" dares visit the underground where the workers toil, and is astonished by what he sees... 
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Nation:
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GERMANY
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Cinematography:
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Karl Freund, Günther Rittau , Walter Ruttmann
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Film editor:
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Screenplay:
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Thea von Harbou
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Play4film's point of view:
This is a masterpiece of science fiction by one of Cinema's great geniuses. "Metropolis" is not only a milestone for Cinema but also for art in itself. A different reality as visually innovative and dense with metaphoric meaning as this has rarely been imagined and articulated. "Metropolis" is not only the "Blade Runner" of silent Cinema, it is rather a limpid metaphor for the first decades of the last century. Strangely, H.G. Wells disliked it intensely yet it remains an absolute masterpiece, an inescapable point of reference for all later science fiction. By Lang, we also recommend "Scarlet Street".
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