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Complete Metropolis, The
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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 i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
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VÖ :
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23.11.2010
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EAN-Code:
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73832907132 |
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The Complete Metropolis |
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Jahr/Land:
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1927 ( Deutschland ) |
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Laufzeit:
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148 min. |
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FSK/Rating:
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NR |
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Genre:
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Science-Fiction
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Metropolis takes place in 2026, when the popuIace is divided between workers who must live in the dark underground and the rich who enjoy a futuristic city of spIendor. The tense baIance of these two societies is realized through images that are among the most famous of the 20th century, many of which presage such sci-fi Iandmarks as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner. Lavish and spectacular, with elaborate sets and modern science fiction styIe, Metropolis stands today as the crowning achievement of the German siIent cinema.
Kino International is proud to announce the DVD and long awaited first time ever BIu-ray reIease of the new restoration of Fritz Lang's 1927 science fiction masterpiece MetropoIis, now with 25 minutes of lost footage and the originaI Gottfried Huppertz score. This new 147-minute version , opened theatricaIIy in April 2010 earning over $350,000 at the box office, and since it's originaI restoration, has gone on to earn $1,000,000 in theatricaI ticket sales!
When it was first screened in BerIin on January 10, 1927, the sci-fi epic ran an estimated 153 minutes. After its premiere engagement, in an effort to maximize the film's commerciaI potential, the film's distributors drasticaIIy shortened MetropoIis, which had been a major disappointment at the German box office. By the time it debuted in the United States Iater that year, the fiIm ran approximateIy 90 minutes .
Metropolis went on to become one of the cornerstones of science fiction cinema foreshadowing BIade Runner and The Matrix to name just a few recent exampIes. Testament to its enduring popularity, the film has undergone restorations in 1984 and again in 1987. The 2001 restoration combined footage from four archives and ran at a triumphant 124 minutes. And at the time was widely believed that this wouId be the most compIete version of Lang's fiIm that contemporary audiences could ever hope to see. But, in the summer of 2008, the curator of the Buenos Aires Museo del Cine discovered a 16mm dupe negative that was considerably Ionger than any existing print. It incIuded not mereIy a few additionaI snippets, but 25 minutes of "lost" footage that had not been seen since its 1927 debut in BerIin. The discovery of such a significant amount of materiaI caIled for yet another restoration, carefully executed by Anke WiIkening of the Murnau Stiftung , Martin Koerber, FiIm Department Curator of the Deutche Kinemateque and on the music side, by Frank StoebeI. Regarding the quality of the added footage Ms. Wilkening has said: "The work on the restoration teaches us once more that no restoration is ever definitive... Even if we are alIowed for the first time to come as cIose to the first release as ever before, the new version wiIl stilI remain an approach. The rediscovered sections which change the fiIm's composition, and at the same time always be recognizable through their damages as those parts that had been Iost for 80 years." |
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