The Complete Metropolis

This is a new restoration of Fritz Lang's 1927 science fiction masterpiece METROPOLIS, now with 25 minutes of lost footage and the original Gottfried Huppertz score. Seldom has the rediscovery of a cache of lost footage ignited such widespread curiosity as did the announcement, in July 2008, that an essentially complete copy of Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS had been found. Now for the first time in more than 80 years audiences will see what Lang intended before his film was butchered by distributors hoping to improve box office grosses by drastically shortening the movie.

"Throw away your METROPOLIS DVD! The version of Fritz Lang's sci-fi classic seen and admired by the world for nearly a century is far from the epic that the director originally envisioned...But last night, 83 years after its first world premiere, the silent movie was shown just as Lang had intended it...The film now feels suitably epic and tense throughout." (Kaleem Aftab, Independent)