Metropolis overview

Metropolis

Synopsis:

The biggest-budgeted movie ever produced at Germany's UFA, Fritz Lang's gargantuan Metropolis consumed resources that would have yielded upwards of 20 conventional features, more than half the studio's entire annual production budget. And if it didn't make a profit at the time -- indeed, it nearly bankrupted the studio -- the film added an indelible array of images and ideas to cinema, and has endured across the many decades since its release. Metropolis had many sources of inspiration, including a novel by the director's wife, Thea von Harbou -- who drew on numerous existing science fiction and speculative fiction sources -- and Lang's own reaction to seeing the Manhattan skyline at night for the very first time.


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Movie Details:

  • Director: Fritz Lang
  • Studio: Deutsche Universum Film AG
  • Year: 1927
  • Run Time: 115 minutes
  • Country: Germany
  • MPAA Rating: PG13
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Science Fiction
  • Filmed in: Silent, B&W
  • Release: 1927 01 10 (Germany)

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