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METROPOLIS

FRITZ LANG | GERMANY | 1927 | 148 MIN | NR | ENGLISH INTERTITLES

BFI’s 2022 Sight & Sound List #71

Class divisions prevail in the urban dystopia of Fritz Lang’s sci-fi epic Metropolis, but the inevitable resilience of love between two unlikely citizens threatens the status quo and changes cinema forever.

Cast: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustav Froelich, Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm

Part of the Philadelphia Film Society’s FILM ESSENTIALS series.

With Film Essentials at the Philadelphia Film Center, PFS is giving audiences the chance to experience some of cinema’s greatest treasures as they were meant to be seen: on the biggest screen in Center City!