The Complete Metropolis

UPC: 738329069025

Format: DVDMultiple Formats, AC-3, Black & White, Dolby, Limited Edition, NTSC, Special Edition

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Fritz Lang's Metropolis belongs to legend as much as to cinema. It's a milestone of sci-fi and German expressionism. Yet the story makes minimal sense, and the "theme" belongs in a fortune cookie; to experience the film's pagan power, you have to see the movie. But for decades we couldn't, not really--not with so many versions, all incomplete, often in public-domain prints like smudged photocopies. This Murnau Foundation restoration changes all that. Some shots, scenes, and subplots may be lost forever, but intertitles indicate how they fit into the original continuity and the characters' individual trajectories. Most crucially, the images are crisp, vibrant, and three-dimensional instead…

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List Price: $29.95
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kino Lorber films
Actors: Alfred Abel Brigitte Helm Gustav Frohlich Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Size: 7.5000" x 5.3000"
Weight: 0.6500 lbs.
Language: English, English