Metropolis
Directed by Fritz Lang
Produced by Erich Pommer
Written by Thea von Harbou
Fritz Lang
(uncredited)
Starring Alfred Abel
Brigitte Helm
Gustav Fr?hlich
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Music by Gottfried Huppertz (original version)
Cinematography Karl Freund
Günther Rittau
Walter Ruttmann
Distributed by UFA
Release date(s) 10 January 1927 (1927-01-10)
Running time 153 minutes/24 frame/s
Country Germany
Language Silent film
German intertitles
Budget 5,100,000 Reichsmark
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Metropolis was cut substantially after its German premiere, and much footage was lost over the passage of successive decades. There have been several efforts to restore it, as well as discoveries of previously lost footage. A 2001 reconstruction of Metropolis, shown at the Berlin Film Festival, was inscribed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register in that same year. In 2008, a copy of the film 30 minutes longer than any other known surviving copy was located in Argentina. After a long period of restoration in Germany, the restored film was shown publicly for the first time simultaneously at Berlin and Frankfurt on February 12, 2010. The event of the Friedrichstadtpalast was shown live on a screen at the Brandenburg Gate as well as on TV on ARTE.
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