The Complete METROPOLIS

Directed by Fritz lang
germany. 145 minutes.
Drama/Sci-Fi/Foreign
SAT OCT 16 @ 7:45pm | Salem Cinema
MON OCT 18 @ 4:00pm | Salem Cinema
TUES OCT 19 @ 7:00pm | The Grand Theater

Film Host Sponsor: Ron Cowan

Print courtesy of Kino Lorber

In July 2008, it was announced that an essentially complete copy of Fritz Lang's visionary masterpiece METROPOLIS had been found at the Buenos Aires Museo del Cine in Argentina. It included not merely a few additional snippets, but 25 minutes of scenes (one-fifth of the complete running time) considered lost for 80 years. From conception to completion, the restoration took nearly a full year and cost almost $1 million to complete. This digitally restored footage and Gottfried Huppertz's magnificent original score provide the closest version to the director's original vision since its premiere in 1927. In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Selected Filmography: M (31), You Only Live Once (37), Cloak and Dagger (46), Journey to the Lost City (59)