Metropolis [Sub: Eng] 1927 Watch Free in HD

Freder learns that the woman is called Maria, who espouses the need to join the 'hands' - the workers - to the 'head' - those in power above - by a mediator who will act as the 'heart'. Freder wants to help the plight of the workers in their struggle for a better life. But when John learns of what Maria is advocating and that Freder has joined their cause, with the assistance of an old colleague. an inventor called...

Genre:

Drama, Sci-Fi

Actors:

Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp, Theodor Loos, Erwin Biswanger, Heinrich George, Brigitte Helm, Georg John, Curt Siodmak

Director:

Fritz Lang

Country:

Germany

Release:

1927

IMDb:

8.3

Quality:

Duration:

153 min

New Yorker

One of the last examples of the imaginative -- but often monstrous -- grandeur of the Golden Period of the German film, Metropolis is a spectacular example of Expressionist design.

February 25, 2013

ColeSmithey.com

[VIDEO ESSAY] Although it ends with an overwrought climax, topped off with a laughably banal cliché that unites the workers with their greedy overlord, "Metropolis" is filled with stunning archetypal imagery and grand-scale spectacle.

April 19, 2014

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Independent (UK)

For years audiences have wondered how good this film might have been had it not been edited. It turns out that it's better than anyone could ever have expected.

May 14, 2018

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New York Daily News

Each frame of this classic is drop-dead stunning.

April 01, 2014

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CinePassion

Lang's allegory of allegories posits humanity's progress as a collision not just of labor and management but of technology and sorcery

September 05, 2015

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Variety

Too bad that so much really artistic work was wasted on this manufactured story.

July 06, 2010

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The Tyee (British Columbia)

. . . the film is still something to behold, even if the newly restored footage occasionally looks like someone ran over it with a brillo pad.

August 21, 2017

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The New Republic

I have just had a sensational night at the movies, and the picture was only 83 years old.

July 27, 2010

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A fully realized work of art whose influence on science fiction, set design and symbolism can scarcely be put into words.

July 23, 2010

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Philadelphia Weekly

Metropolis remains the benchmark of agenda-driven extravaganzas, stirring and fun in the right spots.

April 01, 2014

The Spectator

The cinema, even here at its best, and full as it is of invention and thrill, is still only at the mental age of seventeen.

May 08, 2018

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New York Times

Occasionally it strikes one that [Lang] wanted to include too much and then that all one anticipates does not appear. But at the same time the various ideas have been spliced together quite adroitly.

April 01, 2014

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