Artist Metropolis
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German director Fritz Lang returned throughout his career to tales of the criminal underworld and angry mobs, even in his 1927 silent science-fiction allegory Metropolis. While employing elaborate sets, imaginative action sequences, and dreamlike special effects to tell a story of class struggle, Lang never lost sight of the people beneath his enormous edifices. Brigitte Helm plays an underground worker who exposes Gustav Fröhlich (the son of a futuristic society’s cold leader) and the other “thinkers” to inhumane conditions in the mines. Metropolis remains a marvel of design, and it still has the power to thrill and unnerve.
Updated 05/28/2009
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