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It is the future, and humans are divided into two groups: the thinkers, who make plans (but don't know how anything works), and the workers, who achieve goals (but don't have the vision). Completely separate, neither group is complete, but together they make a whole. One man from the "thinkers" dares visit the underground where the workers toil, and is astonished by what he sees...
Movie Tagline:
There can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.
Title: Metropolis
Release Date: March 06, 1927
Runtime: 153 mins
Genre: Action
All Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Languages: German
Country: Germany
Colors: Black and White
Sound: Dolby Digital, Silent
IMDB Rating: 8.4
Brimstone Pit Rating: 9.4 - (Rate This Horror Movie)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With M
MPAA Rating: PG
Director(s):
Fritz Lang
Cast:
Alfred Abel ...Joh Fredersen
Gustav Frohlich ...Freder, Joh Fredersen's son
Rudolf Klein Rogge ...C. A. Rotwang, the inventor
Fritz Rasp ...The Thin Man
Theodor Loos ...Josaphat
Erwin Biswanger ...11811
Heinrich George ...Grot, the guardian of the Heart Machine
Brigitte Helm ...Maria / The Robot
Fritz Alberti ...Creative human - man who convinces Babel
Grete Berger ...Working woman
Olly Boeheim ...Working woman
Max Dietze ...Working man
Ellen Frey ...Working woman
Beatrice Garga ...Woman of Eternal Gardens
Heinrich Gotho ...Master of Ceremonies
Dolly Grey ...Working woman
Anny Hintze ...Woman of Eternal Gardens
Georg John ...Working man who causes explosion of M-Machine
Walter Kuehle ...Working man
Margarete Lanner ...Lady in car / Woman of Eternal Gardens
Rose Lichtenstein ...Working woman
Hanns Leo Reich ...Marinus
Arthur Reinhardt ...Working man
Curt Siodmak ...Working Man
Henrietta Siodmak ...Working Woman
Olaf Storm ...Jan
Erwin Vater ...Working man
Rolf von Goth ...Son in Eternal Gardens
Helen von Munchofen ...Woman of Eternal Gardens
Helene Weigel ...Working woman
» [more cast members]
Producer(s):
Giorgio Moroder
Erich Pommer
Writer(s):
Thea von Harbou
Thea von Harbou
Fritz Lang
Composer(s):
Gottfried Huppertz
Abel Korzeniowski
Giorgio Moroder
Peter Osborne
Bernd Schultheis
Wetfish
Movie Soundtrack(s):
"Love Kills"
"Here's My Heart"
"Cage of Freedom"
"Blood from a Stone"
"The Legend of Babel"
"Here She Comes"
"Destruction"
"On Your Own"
"What's Going On"
"Machines"
More Movie Taglines:
- There can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.
Movie Quote(s):
- 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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Maria: There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.
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Maria: "We shall build a tower that will reach to the stars!" Having conceived Babel, yet unable to build it themselves, they had thousands to build it for them. But those who toiled knew nothing of the dreams of those who planned. And the minds that planned the Tower of Babel cared nothing for the workers who built it. The hymns of praise of the few became the curses of the many - BABEL! BABEL! BABEL! - Between the mind that plans and the hands that build there must be a Mediator, and this must be the heart.
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Man at Nightclub: For her, all seven deadly sins!
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Movie Trivia:
- Film included more than 37,000 extras including 25,000 men, 11,000 women, 1,100 bald men, 750 children, 100 dark-skinned people and 25 Asians.
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Reportedly one of Adolf Hitler's favorite films.
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Being one of the most expensive movies of the time, costing around 5,000,000 marks, this film nearly sent UFA (Universum Film) into bankruptcy.
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The restored version of 2001 is based on a digital restoration at 2K resolution from the best available sources. The image quality far surpasses anything seen since the original release of the film.
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No optical printing system existed at the time, so to create a matte effect, a large mirror was placed at an angle to reflect a piece of artwork while live footage was projected onto the reverse. To expose the projected footage, the silvering on the back of the mirror had to be scraped off in strategically appropriate places. One mistake would ruin the whole mirror. This was done for each separate shot that had to be composited in this manner. This procedure was developed by Eugen Schüfftan and is known as the "Schufftan Process."
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Keywords:
Worker, Future, Vision, Suicide, Grim Reaper ...[more]
Keywords All:
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Rating: 9.4 out of 10.0 - 70 votes cast total
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