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Metropolis (Germany)
Director: Fritz Lang
Footage: 115min
Year: 1927
Metropolis is Adapted from a novel by Lang's wife Thea Von Harbou.
In the year 2000, the wealthy ruling class lives in towering luxury skyscrapers, while slave laborers monotonously toil away far below ground level. The hero, Freder, is the pampered son of Fredersen, one of the most egregious of the fat-cat rulers. Freder is reformed when he meets Maria, the loveliest of the subterrenean dwellers. Travelling incognito below ground, Freder, appalled by the laborers' squalid living conditions, immediately begins campaigning for humanitarian reforms. Evil industrialist Rottwang can't let this happen, so he plots to turn the slaves against the reformers. In his neon-dominated laboratory, Rottwang creates a robot in the image of Maria, designed as a false prophet to lead the rabble astray. After a destructive uprising and an underground flood, the despotic Fredersen sees the light, and agrees in the future to treat the working class with equanimity and compassion.
Metropolis has had a seminal influence on science fiction and futuristic movies. Director Fritz Lang's surreal and occasionally incomprehensible storyline is overwhelmed by a visually spectacular exercise in German expressionism.
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