Metropolis (Reconstructed & Restored) (Masters of Cinema) Blu-ray
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Film Details
Directed by Fritz Lang
Produced in 1926
Main Language - Silent
Countries & Regions - European Film, German Film
Cast
Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustav Frohlich, Fritz Rasp
Genres
Silent Film • European Film • German Film • Blu-ray • Science Fiction & Fantasy - Utopia & Dystopias • Science Fiction & Fantasy Blu-rays
MovieMail's Review
Film fans couldn’t believe their luck when 25 minutes of previously lost footage were restored to Fritz Lang’s dystopian epic. Mike Bartlett goggles at the version unseen since the 1920s.
It’s strange to think that one of the best-loved silent films, Fritz Lang’s dystopic vision of a future society, has until now only been available in a heavily edited and confusing version.
But thanks to a miraculous discovery of 25 minutes of lost footage, it can now be seen almost in its entirety for the first time since 1927. The added material expands three sub-plots which cast new light on the power struggles in the city, and also ups the action movie quotient.
But the film’s principal pleasures remain the same: the vast sets and extraordinary production design, Lang’s depiction of factory workers reduced to a macabre dance of robotic movements that became the definitive representation of the mechanised world, and best of all, Brigitte Helm, playing both the saintly Maria and her diabolical robot double who whips high society into a frenzy with her ‘Whore of Babylon’ dance routine.
Seldom have sci-fi and the erotic blended so successfully.
Michael Bartlett on 21st October 2010
Author of 26 reviews
Film Description
With its dizzying depiction of a futuristic cityscape and alluring female robot, Metropolis is among the most famous of all German films and the mother of sci-fi cinema (an influence on Blade Runner and Star Wars, among countless other films). Directed by the legendary Fritz Lang (M, Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse,The Big Heat, etc.), its jaw-dropping production values, iconic imagery, and modernist grandeur – it was described by Luis Buñuel as "a captivating symphony of movement" – remain as powerful as ever.
Drawing on – and defining – classic sci-fi themes, Metropolis depicts a dystopian future in which society is thoroughly divided in two: while anonymous workers conduct their endless drudgery below ground their rulers enjoy a decadent life of leisure and luxury. When Freder (Gustav Fröhlich) ventures into the depths in search of the beautiful Maria (Brigitte Helm in her debut role), plans of rebellion are revealed and a Maria-replica robot is programmed by mad inventor Rotwang (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) and master of Metropolis Joh Fredersen (Alfred Abel) to incite the workers into a self-destructive riot.
A "Holy Grail" among film finds, Metropolis is presented here in a newly reconstructed and restored version, as lavish and spectacular as ever thanks to the painstaking archival work of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung and the discovery of 25 minutes of footage previously thought lost to the world. Lang's enduring epic can finally be seen – for the first time in 83 years – as the director originally intended, and as seen by German cinemagoers in 1927.
Blu-ray Details
Certificate: PG
Publisher: Eureka / Masters of Cinema
Length: 150 mins
Aspect ratio: 1.37:1 OAR
Region: 2
Cat No: EKA70001
Format: Blu-ray B&W
Blu-ray Extras
- 150-minute feature film (including 25 minutes of footage previously thought lost to the world)
- Special-edition packaging with lavish wraparound sleeve and embossed printing
- Newly translated optional English subtitles
- Full-length audio commentary by David Kalat and Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Die Reise nach Metropolis (2010) documentary about the film
- 56-page booklet featuring new essays, archival interviews, vintage production stills and more!
Film Stills
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Community Reviews
by Anon on 9th January 2003
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis was a landmark in film history and had a huge influence on the development of science fiction and fantasy films (think Blade Runner, Star Wars ... Read on
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The breath-taking, nightmarish cityscape, inspired by the towering Manhattan skyline, attests to Langs artistic vision. Here is the maddest of mad scientists, a welter... Read on
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