The complete Metropolis
2010
Blu-ray
In 2026, the rich rule over the poor, who live underground. One man tries to bridge the gap between the two classes. In July 2008 a complete copy of the film was discovered with an additional 25 minutes of lost footage that had not been seen since the film's premiere in 1927. After years of restoration the sci-fi epic was re-released in theaters in 2010 as The Complete Metropolis.
Item Details
Description:
- 1 videodisc (148 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- surround
- DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- full screen
- HDTV
- video file
- Blu-ray video
- region A
Target Audience Note: Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.
Other Title:
- Metropolis
- Metropolis (Motion picture : 1927) [Blu-ray].
Notes:
- "Restoration carried out by Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Wiesbaden jointly with Deutsch Kinemathek Museum für Film und Fernsehen, Berlin in co-operation with Museo del Cine Pablo C. Ducros Hicken, Buenos Aires. Editorial restoration: Martin Koerber, Frank Strobel, Anke Wilkening. Digital image restoration: Alpha-Omega Digital, München."
- Title from container.
- Special features: "Voyage to Metropolis," a 50-minute documentary on the making and restoration of the film; interview with Paula Felix-Didier, curator of the Museo del Cine, Buenos Aires, where the missing footage was discovered; 2010 re-release trailer.
- Photographed by Karl Freund, Günther Rittau ; music by Gottfried Huppertz ; music performed by Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin ; conducted by Frank Strobel.
- Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge.
- Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; full screen format (1.33:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1.
- For private home use only.
- Silent film, intertitles in English.
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- K713
- K713
Control Number: 3288694
UPC: 738329071325
Publisher: New York : Kino International, 2010.Subjects:
Genre:
Other Authors:
- Abel, Alfred, 1879-1937, actor.
- Berliner Rundfunk. Sinfonie-Orchester.
- Filmmuseum Berlin--Deutsche Kinemathek.
- Freund, Karl, 1890-1969, director of photography.
- Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.
- Fröhlich, Gustav, actor.
- Harbou, Thea von, 1888-1954, screenwriter.
- Helm, Brigitte, 1908-1996, actor.
- Huppertz, Gottfried, 1887-1937, composer.
- Kino International Corporation.
- Klein-Rogge, Rudolf, actor.
- Lang, Fritz, 1890-1976, film director.
- Museo del Cine (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Rittau, Günther, director of photography.
- Strobel, Frank, conductor.
- UFA (Firm)