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A shot – among the 25 minutes previously thought lost – which has been integrated into the 2010 reconstruction and restoration.

On January 10, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis premieres in Berlin in a 4189-metre version approved by the director. For the film’s 3100-metre USA release, on March 7, Paramount take the butcher’s knife to the original and remove a quarter, rewriting the film’s intertitles, and changing the characters’ names. Following Paramount’s lead, Ufa withdraws Metropolis and on August 26 re-releases it in a 3241-metre cut shorn of nearly a quarter of Lang’s original. Excised footage would remain lost to the world for more than 80 years.

1969

Using materials from the Staatliches Filmarchiv der DDR, a first attempt is made at restoring Metropolis, but after three years the results are limited.

1984

Giorgio Moroder releases a colourised version of the film featuring a new soundtrack that includes Bonnie Tyler, Pat Benatar, Freddie Mercury, Adam Ant, etc. Seen as sacrilegious by many and a camp, cult reworking by others.

1987

At the Deutsche Kinemathek in Munich, Germany, restoration efforts are made, but the film remains significantly shorter than the original release.

2001

A digital restoration of available materials is unveiled via the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung in Germany.

2005

A “study version” of Lang’s film is prepared, with notes where footage remains missing.

2008

A spectacular find at the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where a dusty 16mm dupe negative with nearly 25 minutes of previously missing footage is discovered.

2010

An extended restoration, featuring the materials found in 2008, returns a cinema classic to virtually its original version – the “director’s cut” – immaculately reconstructed and restored.

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Key Features

A “Holy Grail” of film finds, reconstructed and restored with 25 minutes of footage previously thought lost to the world

Newly found material returns the film to the original release version seen by German cinema-goers in early 1927

For the first time in 83 years, the film finally seen as the director intended

Official archival reconstruction and restoration by the highly respected
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung

One of the key works of master director Fritz Lang (M, Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse [The Testament of Dr. Mabuse], Die Nibelungen, The Big Heat, etc.)

Among the most iconic and influential films of all time, a cinema classic with a huge cult following

The mother of all sci-fi films and a major influence on Ridley Scott (Blade Runner), George Lucas (Star Wars), and pop culture in general (referenced by Madonna, Beyoncé, Janelle Monáe, and countless others)

First ever film to be included on the UNESCO Memory of the World “register” of essential cultural artifacts

New 2010 symphony orchestra recording of the original 1927 Gottfried Huppertz score

Immaculate image quality for 2K "digital cinema" screenings (*except where format isn't supported)

Newly translated English subtitles of the original German intertitles

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