Information
- BFI identifier37703
- Date1927-01-27 (Release)
- Production countryGermany
- Production company
- SynopsisStory of a city of the future in which the workers dwell underground and are slaves to the machines that they operate and their daily monotonous work. Above ground dwells the privileged class of rulers, who live in luxury. The son of one of these ventures below ground and discovers the world there. He also encounters a beautiful girl who ministers to the workers. Worried about her influence on his son and the workers, his father encourages an inventor to create a robot which looks like her. (Synopsis)
- Work historyLost original version of the film found in Buenos Aires in 2008. Reconstructed and restored version released in 2010.
- Genre
- Subject
- Credits
- CastBrigitte Helm (Maria/Robot Maria)
Alfred Abel (Jon Fredersen)
Gustav Fröhlich (Freder Fredersen)
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Title
Metropolis (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/B158-B2CA-62BE-C5EF-50DC-2Category
Fiction- Collections
- Film / Video
- Scripts / DocumentsMusic Cue Sheet (Special Collections) - MUS-921
Script - Script type: NFT English Intertitles - From Munich Print - SCR-2862
Script - Original story: Thea von Harbou - SCR-12332
Ephemera: publicity - PBM-37703
Medium pressbook held. Music cue sheet held. For examples of programmes see CINEMA EPHEMERA: REGIONS (Brighton Academy & Oxford Electra) & OVERSEAS (France, Paris, Cercle du Cinema) & see FILM AND TELEVISION EPHEMERA for publicity.
view all - StillsPhotograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-55w
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-55v
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-enc
Photograph: print - Portrait - Colour - bfi-00n-enb
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-lbj
view all - ArticlesFilm Review n627 February 2003 - Credits, ReviewEmpire n164 February 2003 - DVD ReviewThe Independent Film and Video Monthly v25 n2 March 2002 - Short ArticleStarBurst n17 [1979] - Articleview all
- Books
- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes August 2014
BFI Southbank Programme Notes May 2019
available to view in BFI Reuben Library
- +Metropolis
Work - 37703 - 1927-01-27 (Release)
Germany - Film - Fiction
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