Metropolis is a science fiction film produced during the short-lived
Weimar Republic. Directed in 1927 by Austrian filmmaker Fritz Lang, the film is
Metropolis is a megalopolis divided into two parts.
the upper city, where the ruling families live in idleness, luxury and entertainment.
the lower city, where the workers keep the city running.
Maria (Brigitte Helm), a woman from the lower town, tries to promote understanding between the two.
between the classes, and smuggles workers’ children to visit the upper town.
The group is turned away by the police, but Freder Fredersen (Gustav
Fröhlich), the son of Metropolis’ ruler, falls in love with her. Going down into
to find her, he sees an exhausted worker fainting at his workstation,
the pace set by the machines being too fast, an explosion occurs; the worker is killed.
machine monster devours the workers…