Metropolis
1927 · 148 MIN · IMDB 8.3 · 192,865 VOTES · DIR. Fritz Lang
Overview
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Dialogue Timeline — 655 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:12 More than a quarter of the film must be regarded as irretrievable, lost.
00:04:17 The way people move or are moved is always highly significant
00:08:03 A light-hearted waltz, no musical leitmotiv
00:12:17 Heralded by the clarinet - a new chorale based theme
00:16:43 "Nothing in this world is more vengeful than the jealousy of a machine
00:21:38 In Thomas Pinchon's novel "Gravity's Rainbow", Franz Pökler
00:28:22 First from the strings, then the horns
00:36:27 The Slim One in left profile. Take note of just how differently
00:42:27 Fredersen his wife
00:50:29 Freder's Passion - the factory is his Golgotha -
00:57:28 turns out to be a model, around which a group of architects has gathered.
01:05:32 The couple is musically threatened by the Theme of the Uprising.
01:14:44 The music in the cathedral scene: The "Dies irae"
01:24:24 remembers Lang forty years later, "included a battle between modern science
01:29:36 In the figure of the merciful preacher, he seems to sense a female challenge
01:34:27 Isolated, edited gestures and the positions of the dancer
01:42:54 Like the evil character in a fairy tale, Rotwang pretends his own child
01:50:19 by men and women, who use them to go upwards. In a later scene
01:56:36 a shadow ascending a staircase, exit to another theatre
02:03:50 without act of procreation, through adoption, by saving the children
02:11:20 ascending from the machine halls, have reached.
02:17:57 pursued by Rotwang.
02:22:33 the untameable lion who could let it all crash, girl, State
02:27:00 provoked as much criticism, analysis and interpretation
Cast & Characters
Brigitte Helm
Maria
Brigitte Helm
Maschinenmensch
Brigitte Helm
The Machine Man
Alfred Abel
Johann (Joh) Fredersen
Gustav Fröhlich
Freder Fredersen - Joh Fredersens Sohn
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Erfinder C.A. Rotwang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
The Inventor
Fritz Rasp
Der Schmale
Fritz Rasp
The Thin Man
Theodor Loos
Josaphat
Theodor Loos
Joseph
Erwin Biswanger
11811 - Georgy
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed655
Dialogue density4.4 lines / min
First line00:00:12
Final line02:27:00
Production Record
DirectorFritz Lang
LanguageGerman
Budget$5,300,000
Revenue$1,350,322
IMDb votes192,865