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Metropolis (1927)
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Ratings: 8.4/10 from 56,883 users
Metascore:
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Reviews: 351 user | 196 critic | 14 from Metacritic.com In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. Director:Fritz Lang |
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Sometime in the future, the city of Metropolis is home to a Utopian society where its wealthy residents live a carefree life. One of those is Freder Fredersen. One day, he spots a beautiful woman with a group of children, she and the children who quickly disappear. Trying to follow her, he, oblivious to such, is horrified to find an underground world of workers, apparently who run the machinery which keeps the above ground Utopian world functioning. One of the few people above ground who knows about the world below is Freder's father, Joh Fredersen, who is the founder and master of Metropolis. Freder learns that the woman is Maria, who espouses the need to join the "hands" - the workers - to the "head" - those in power above - by a mediator or the "heart". Freder wants to help the plight of the workers in the want for a better life. But when Joh learns of what Maria is espousing and that Freder is joining their cause... Written by Huggo
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There can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator. See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
GermanyLanguage:
German (intertitles)Release Date:
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The Complete Metropolis See more »Filming Locations:
Berlin, GermanyBox Office
Budget:
DRM 1,300,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$19,386 (USA) (14 July 2002)Gross:
$650,422 (USA) (10 August 2003)Company Credits
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Runtime:
| Germany: (premiere cut) | Germany: (re-release version) | USA: (25 fps) (1927 cut version) | USA: (2002 Murnau Foundation 75th aniversary restored version) | (DVD edition) (2002 Murnau Foundation 75th aniversary restored version) | (Giorgio Moroder version) | (2010 restored version)Color:
Black and White (tinted)Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1
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Joh Frederson: In their proper place, the depths.
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Written by Giorgio Moroder and Billy Squier
Performed by Billy Squier
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Was so influential on Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster that they named their character's city after it. See more »Goofs
Continuity: Towards the close of the film, as Freder is grabbed by the mob, his shirt is pulled open. When next seen, it is fastened up again. See more »Quotes
Freder: It was their hands that built this city of ours, Father. But where do the hands belong in your scheme?Joh Frederson: In their proper place, the depths.
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Restoration based on the version in the Filmmuseum Munich and material preserved in the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv See more »Soundtracks
"On Your Own"Written by Giorgio Moroder and Billy Squier
Performed by Billy Squier
Courtesy of Capitol Records
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