who all have acted in it?
Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel,  Rudolph Klein-Rogge
Metropolis (1927 film)
Brigitte Helm (Maria) had been given a screen test by Lang after he met her on the set of "Die Nibelungen", but would make her feature film debut with "Metropolis". In the role of Joh Fredersen, Lang cast Alfred Abel, a noted stage and screen actor whom he had worked with on "Dr. Mabuse the Gambler". Lang also cast his frequent collaborator Rudolph Klein-Rogge in the role of Rotwang. This was Klein-Rogge's fourth film with Lang, after "Destiny", "Dr. Mabuse the Gambler", and "Die Nibelungen".
what does 'ace books' mean? A publisher of science fiction and fantasy books who founded it? Aaron A. Wyn name some of the famous books they have published? William Colt MacDonald's "Bad Man's Return", P. G. Wodehouse's "Quick Service what is the genre of the latter work? UNANSWERABLE when was it published? 4 October 1940 what sort of struggles did they face financially? After the death of Wyn, the company grew financially overextended, failing to pay its authors reliably. do they publish books of different genres? Yes, of science fiction, mysteries and westerns combined,  lurid juvenile delinquent novels what are the characteristics of the first one? is a genre of speculative fiction with concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel and extraterrestrial life. can you give a few literary examples of the same? "New Atlantis", "The States and Empires of the Sun", "Gulliver's Travels" who wrote the last one? Jonathan Swift what is it about? It satirises both human nature and the "travellers' tales". who is the protagonist in it? Lemuel Gulliver where did he travel to? Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, Houyhnhnm was it ever made into a film? UNANSWERABLE what does the second work deal with? UNANSWERABLE can you list a few movies made in this genre? "Metropolis", "Godzilla", "Planet of the Apes",  "Star Wars" when did the first one get released? 1927
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Metropolis (1927 film) [SEP] Filming
Other anecdotes involve Lang's insistence on using real fire for the climactic scene where the false Maria is burnt at the stake (which resulted in Helm's dress catching fire), and his ordering extras to throw themselves towards powerful jets of water when filming the flooding of the worker's city. Helm recalled her experiences of shooting the film in a contemporary interview, saying that "the night shots lasted three weeks, and even if they did lead to the greatest dramatic moments—even if we did follow Fritz Lang's directions as though in a trance, enthusiastic and enraptured at the same time—I can't forget the incredible strain that they put us under.