Metropolis - Masters of Cinema series [1927]
DVD movie

Fritz Lang's Metropolis is perhaps the most famous German film of all time, and certainly one of the most influential of all silent films. In its lifetime it has been: drastically re-edited ; unseen for decades; revisioned with a modern music score in the 1980s; and thanks to the work of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung and a network of archives all over the world, restored in 2001. This restoration of Metropolis is the most complete and authentic version of Lang's original 1927 vision since its day of release. Metropolis takes place in the future, where people are divided into two groups: poor workers living beneath the ground and the rich who enjoy a decadent city of luxury. The...