Knowra Metropolis Metropolis Metropolis is a 1927 German science-fiction film directed by Fritz Lang, set in a futuristic city divided between wealthy rulers above ground and workers below.
Fritz Lang : Fritz Lang was an Austrian-born film director whose German films include Metropolis and M. Lang directed Metropolis and shaped its striking visual style.
Weimar Republic : The Weimar Republic was Germany’s democratic government from 1918 to 1933. Metropolis was made amid the republic’s political upheaval and rapid modernization.
Science fiction film : Science fiction film uses imagined science, technology, or future societies to explore human concerns. Metropolis helped establish visual conventions for cinematic futures.
Metropolis (1984 film) : Metropolis is a 1984 version of Fritz Lang’s film, edited and scored by Giorgio Moroder. This version added color tinting, a pop soundtrack, and intertitles to the surviving footage.
Thea von Harbou : Thea von Harbou was a German novelist and screenwriter who co-wrote the screenplay for Metropolis. Her screenplay, adapted from her novel, supplied the film’s story and imagery.
Thea von Harbou's Metropolis : Thea von Harbou’s Metropolis is a 1925 science-fiction novel that she adapted into the film’s screenplay. The novel established the city, social conflict, and central characters before the film.
Blade Runner : Blade Runner is Ridley Scott’s 1982 science-fiction film about a detective pursuing artificial humans in a dystopian Los Angeles. Its layered futuristic city recalls Metropolis’s monumental urban imagery.
Metropolis restoration : The restoration of Metropolis is the process of recovering, reconstructing, and presenting the film from surviving materials. Newly discovered footage in 2008 substantially expanded the available cut.
German Expressionist cinema : German Expressionist cinema is a movement marked by stylized settings, distorted forms, and heightened visual contrasts. Metropolis extends Expressionist design into an immense futuristic city.
UFA : Universum Film AG, or UFA, was Germany’s major film studio, founded in 1917. UFA financed and produced Metropolis as a prestige production.
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