I didn’t realize until tonight how big was this hole in my cinematographic culture !
While regularly played during my teens in the 1970’s in the “Cinémathèque” Palais de Chaillot (Bauhaus architecture like neighbouring Palais de Tokyo) facing the Eiffel TOwer on the other bank of the Seine, I do understand now why the time has come for me to watch it …
Metropolis written by a lady aristocrat who while married was then the mistress of Fritz Lang who adapted this vision of what would be reality in… 2026 !
SO, we cannot say : this is a Jewish mind bending movie in view of mass programmation, because it was written by a brilliant aristocrat beauty, a member of the Nazi party who managed to save some Jews, starting with her secretary.
The musical entrée sounds like Kraftwerk who with its LP record Autobahn initiated the industrial music in the late 1970’s, so actual…
Here it is, restored and colorized with new editing.
Masterpiece is a qualifier up to its real signification here !
