1. Metropolis movie review & film summary (1927) | Roger Ebert
The story tells of a great city whose two halves–the pampered citizens of the surface and the slaves of the depths–are ignorant of one another. The city is run ...
Stirred by the visionary power of "Dark City," I revisited Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" and once again fell under its eerie spell. The movie has a plot that
2. Metropolis | Facts & Summary | Britannica
Sep 7, 2024 · The film's plot, about a repressive society divided into exploited workers, indolent rulers, and emotionless robots, may have owed something to ...
Metropolis, German silent film, released in 1927, featuring director Fritz Lang’s vision of a grim futuristic society.
3. The hidden politics of Fritz Lang's Metropolis - A Rabbit's Foot
Feb 9, 2023 · Reeling from a hangover, guest-writer Allegra Handelsman uncovers the politics of sci-fi godfather Fritz Lang's legendary 1927 'Metropolis'
Reeling from a hangover, guest-writer Allegra Handelsman uncovers the politics of sci-fi godfather Fritz Lang's legendary 1927 'Metropolis'
4. Metropolis - Rotten Tomatoes
This influential German science-fiction film presents a highly stylized futuristic city where a beautiful and cultured utopia exists above a bleak underworld.
This influential German science-fiction film presents a highly stylized futuristic city where a beautiful and cultured utopia exists above a bleak underworld populated by mistreated workers. When the privileged youth Freder (Gustav Fröhlich) discovers the grim scene under the city, he becomes intent on helping the workers. He befriends the rebellious teacher Maria (Brigitte Helm), but this puts him at odds with his authoritative father, leading to greater conflict.
5. Metropolis (1927) - BFI
The grandest science fiction film of the silent era (and for many years to come), a seminal prediction of a megacity where the masses work as slaves for the ...
Fritz Lang’s bombastic, stylised depiction of a future of profound inequality has influenced generations of genre filmmakers.
6. Metropolis (1927)
"Metropolis" takes place in the year 2000 in the mythical setting of Metropolis. This German story is a utopic vision of a Marxist society that goes too far.
7. Myth in Motion: Review of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (1927) - automachination
Mar 25, 2024 · The film's depiction of its setting has created a wake of imitators over the last almost 100 years of science fiction—its skyscrapers continue ...
Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" is a cult classic for good reason, as its power thrives within silence, bombast, and surprisingly modern visuals.
8. Metropolis (1927) - Decent Films
Surreal, sprawling, and operatic, drawing on biblical and medieval Christian imagery as well as HG Wells' The Time Machine.
Surreal, sprawling, and operatic, drawing on biblical and medieval Christian imagery as well as H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine, Fritz Lang’s deeply influential pulp allegory Metropolis colonized a new realm of the imagination that has shaped subsequent science fiction from Flash Gordon to Star Wars, from
9. Metropolis film Wiki | Fandom
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist film in the science-fiction genre directed by Fritz Lang. Produced in Germany during a stable period of the Weimar ...
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist film in the science-fiction genre directed by Fritz Lang. Produced in Germany during a stable period of the Weimar Republic in Germany, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and makes use of this context to explore the social crisis between workers and owners inherent in capitalism, as expressed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The film was produced in the Babelsberg Studios 24 by Universum Film A.G. (UFA). The most expensive silent film eve