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Metropolis (CinéConcert)

By

Fritz Lang

Duration

147 MIN

Language

- without dialogue

Subtitles

French

Country

Germany

Year

1927

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Synopsis

In the future, the society of Metropolis is divided in two social classes: the workers, who live in the underground below the machines level, and the dominant classes that lives in the surface. The workers are controlled by their leader Maria, who wants to find a mediator between the upper class lords and the workers, since she believes that a heart would be necessary between brains and muscles. Maria meets Freder Fredersen, the son of the Lord of Metropolis Johhan Fredersen, in a meeting of the workers, and they fall in love for each other. Meanwhile, Johhan decides that the workers are no longer necessary for Metropolis, and uses a robot pretending to be Maria to promote a revolution of the working class and eliminate them.

About Gabriel Thibaudeau
Principal pianist at the Cinémathèque québécoise, this brilliant composer has close to thirty years of experience in scoring music for silent films. Acclaimed internationally, his works have been presented at some of the largest film festivals around the world.

Fritz lang

Direction

Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang Fritz Lang is one of the most important German filmmakers of his generation. He started in Germany in 1920s and pursued a career in the United States where he had to move in 1934 because of the rise of the Nazism in Europe. He crafted many classics as The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, M, The Big Heat and especially Metropolis which remains his most famous work.

Editing

Fritz Lang

Cinematographer

Karl Freund
Günther Rittau
Walter Ruttmann

Cast

Alfred Abel
Gustav Fröhlich
Brigitte Helm
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Fritz Rasp

Original Title

Metropolis (CinéConcert)

English Title

Metropolis (Concert Film)

Metropolis