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Those lucky German SOBs!
The Berlin Film Festival will screen Fritz Lang's original cut of "Metropolis," which was feared lost but discovered in an Argentine museum last year, at a gala ceremony on Feb. 10, the Berlinale said on Thursday.
The cult sci-fi classic, penned by Lang and Thea von Harbou in 1924, was the most expensive film ever made in Germany when it bowed on Jan. 10, 1927. After it bombed at the box office, the UFA studio re-edited the silent film, cutting about 30 minutes. It re-released it to great acclaim eight months later. The outtakes were feared lost. But in 2008 a 16 mm negative of the original was found in Buenos Aires. The original has since been restored by the Murnau Foundation in cooperation with ZDF, Arte and the Deutsche Kinemathek. "Just about no other German film has inspired and influenced film history as greatly as Fritz Lang's Metropolis," said Berlinale topper Dieter Kosslick. "We're especially pleased and honored to be able to present the reconstructed original cut of this legendary and seminal film classic at the festival's 60th anniversary." The legend surrounding "Metropolis" has also been kept alive for decades in part because there was widespread knowledge of the longer version but no prints could be found. Lang made the film, considered a classic in part because of its pioneering special effects, at the Babelsberg studios outside Berlin. Conceived during the heyday of the Weimar Republic, the pic is about a futuristic urban dystopia in the year 2026 set against the backdrop of social tension between the working class and capitalist bosses.
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any germans here willing to tape a bootleg?
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That's incredible. I agree, lucky SOBs!
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I know many people have been waiting for this DVD release...
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It is amazing how these "lost" films still turn up from time to time. Can't wait to see this one.
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I for one haven't seen the film at all regardless of version.
Though I find this interesting...IF the full version ever comes to DVD, I'd probably pick it up, I mean now I know it's out there I can't just settle for the other one, I'd feel like I was missing out on something.
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