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Metropolis (1927)

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Drama
Release Date:March 13, 1927
Running time:120 minutes
Cast:Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Brigitte Helm, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp
Director:Fritz Lang
Producer:Tawd Beckman, Erich Pommer
Writer:Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou
Distributor:Paramount Pictures

Description: A futuristic look at the schism created in mankind as industrialization and technological advancement serves to alienate the humans from one another. People are divided into two groups: the thinkers--who make plans, yet don't know how to operate machinery, and the workers--who forward production without having any overview vision. Completely separate, neither group is complete; however, together they make a whole. When one man, a thinker, dares to journey to the underground, where the workers 'slave away,' he's surprised at what he sees.

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