What is Metropolis (movie)?
{{italictitle}} [[file:Metropolis1927-logo.svg|200px}|right]] [[File:Maria from the film Metropolis, on display at the Robot Hall of Fame.jpg|thumb|Maria from Metropolis in the Robot Hall of Fame]] '''''Metropolis''''' (1927) is a [[Germany|German]] [[silent movie|silent]] [[science fiction movie|science]] [[drama]] [[movie]]. It was [[screenwriter|written]] and [[Director (movie)|directed]] by [[Fritz Lang]]. It was made in [[Germany]]. It was the most expensive silent movie of the time.<ref>Richard Scheib (2003), [http://www.moria.co.nz/sf/metropolis.htm ''Metropolis'' review]. Retrieved [[November 24]], [[2005]].</ref> The movie is set in 2026 in a city-state called Metropolis. People have been divided into two groups. One group is the thinkers. They live on the Earth in luxury. The other group is the workers. They work underground. They make the life of the thinkers possible. The movie features special effects and set design. Lang took his inspiration for the sets from [[Manhattan]]. The movie opened in Germany in January 1927. It opened in the United States in March 1927. The American print is the only surviving copy. == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == {{Commonscat|Metropolis (film)}} * [http://www.brokenprojector.com/wordpress/?p=56 Metropolis: A Film Far Ahead of its Time] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080121101255/http://www.brokenprojector.com/wordpress/?p=56 |date=2008-01-21 }} * [http://www.kino.com/metropolis/ The official site of the new restoration] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060715204955/http://www.kino.com/metropolis/ |date=2006-07-15 }} * [http://www.alpha-omega.de/English/E_metropolis.html About restoring 'Metropolis'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060628124349/http://www.alpha-omega.de/English/E_metropolis.html |date=2006-06-28 }} * [https://archive.org/details/Metropolis_63 ''Metropolis'' novelization by Thea von Harbou] * [http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=4863&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html ''Metropoli