Metropolis at Bytown on Tuesday - apparently awesome.

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Playing at the Bytown cinema Tuesday night at 6:15

Metropolis is a silent science fiction film created by the famed Austrian director Fritz Lang. Produced in Germany in the Babelsberg Studios during the brief years of the Weimar Republic and released in 1927, it was the most expensive silent film of the time, costing approximately 7 million Reichsmark (equivalent to around $200 million in 2005) to make.[1] The screenplay was written in 1924 by Lang and his wife, Thea von Harbou, and novelized by von Harbou in 1926. It is set in a futuristic urban dystopia, and, like its contemporary The Battleship Potemkin, addresses the then-current political themes of capitalism vs. communism.

The film is set in the year 2026, in the extraordinary Gothic skyscrapers of a corporate city-state, the Metropolis of the title. Society has been divided into two rigid groups: one of planners or thinkers, who live high above the earth in luxury, and another of workers who live underground toiling to sustain the lives of the privileged. The city is run by Johhan 'John' Fredersen.

see more here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film)

Edited April 2, 2007 by Guest

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I saw it once, set to a soundtrack made by the DJ Jeff Mills. It was very cool.

Queen used clips from the film in the video for Radio Ga Ga.