A 1927 German silent science-fiction film directed by Fritz Lang, set in a towering dystopian city divided between a wealthy elite above ground and an exploited labor class below. Its expressionist sets and the design of the robot Maria shaped the visual vocabulary of science-fiction cinema for the century that followed.
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A 1927 German silent science-fiction film directed by Fritz Lang, set in a towering dystopian city divided between a wealthy elite above ground and an exploited labor class below.
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Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang, based on von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name (which was written as a treatment).
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