Metropolis
Before "The Matrix", before "Blade Runner", before "Star Wars", before "2001: A Space Odyssey": The Film That Started It All! 80 years ago!
Metropolis is a silent movie created by the famed Austrian director Fritz Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976). Produced in Germany in the Babelsberg Studios during the brief years of the Weimar Republic and released in 1927, it was the most expensive silent film of the time, costing approximately 7 million Reichsmark (equivalent to around $200 million in 2005) to make.The screenplay was written in 1924 by Lang and his wife, Thea von Harbou, and novelized by von Harbou in 1926. It is set in a futuristic urban dystopia, and addresses the then-current political themes of capitalism v. communism.
Metropolis is a silent movie created by the famed Austrian director Fritz Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976). Produced in Germany in the Babelsberg Studios during the brief years of the Weimar Republic and released in 1927, it was the most expensive silent film of the time, costing approximately 7 million Reichsmark (equivalent to around $200 million in 2005) to make.The screenplay was written in 1924 by Lang and his wife, Thea von Harbou, and novelized by von Harbou in 1926. It is set in a futuristic urban dystopia, and addresses the then-current political themes of capitalism v. communism.
posted by Lusaut at 11:43
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Gosto, particularmente, da versão de 1984 com a banda sonora do grande Giorgio Moroder.
Abraço.
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