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No optical printing system existed at the time, so to create a matte effect, a large mirror was plac [...]	D
Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels was impressed with the film's message of social justice. In a 1928 [...]	D
For the U.S. version, Paramount hired playwright Channing Pollock to rewrite the film around Fritz L [...]	D
In the English version of the film, all references towards the character of Hel were dropped, becaus [...]	D
The connection of this film to the Nazi regime is quite remarkable. Thea von Harbou, who was Fritz L [...]	D
So, so many artistic projects were influenced by this classic. Here are a few. Flash Gordon (Ming's [...]	D
Fritz Lang and his team traveled to the United States where they acquired two Mitchell cameras. The [...]	D
This was one of the world's first feature-length science fiction movies.	D
In order to create the robot costume, a plaster cast was taken of Brigitte Helm's body. The cast was [...]	D
In keeping with the Biblical themes, "Josephat" is a common shortened version of Jehoshaphat. The bi [...]	D
The verses of the Bible the monk is pointing to with his hand, just before the robot is seen for the [...]	D
At the film's premiere in Berlin on January 10, 1927, the audience burst into applause at some of th [...]	D
Included among the '1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die', edited by Steven Jay Schneider.	D
In some international versions, in the credits Heinrich George is mistaken for Fritz Rasp.	D
Fritz Lang would frequently demand numerous retakes and took two days to shoot a simple scene where [...]	D
Footage of this film was used in the British Rock Band, Queen's Music Video for "Radio Ga Ga".	D
The restored version of 2001 was based on a digital restoration at 2K resolution from the best avail [...]	D
Over 25,000 extras were involved in the making of the film.	D
Science fiction author H.G. Wells called this "quite the silliest film". In a scathing review, he wr [...]	D
This film took almost a year and a half to shoot.	D
Being one of the most expensive movies of the time, costing around 5,000,000 marks, this film nearly [...]	D
For decades, all that survived of Metropolis (1927) were an incomplete original negative and copies [...]	D
This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd.	D
To build excitement for the film, the original novel was serialized in the popular German magazine I [...]	D
For the chase across the rooftops, Brigitte Helm and Rudolf Klein-Rogge actually had to climb across [...]	D
Writer David Foster Wallace wanted to make a photo of Fritz Lang directing this film the cover of hi [...]	D
The connection of this film to the Nazi regime is quite remarkable. Thea Von Harbou, who was Fritz L [...]	D
With UFA still in financial difficulties, businessman Alfred Hunberg took charge of the studio. He c [...]	D
The American copyright lapsed in 1953, which eventually led to a proliferation of versions being rel [...]	D
The Maschinenmensch - the robot built by Rotwang to resurrect his lost love Hel - was created by scu [...]	D
In Oct of 1984 the world premiere of Digital sound in a motion picture theatre took place, using Mor [...]	D
Fritz Lang wanted 4,000 bald extras for the Tower of Babel sequence, but Erich Pommer could only fin [...]	D
The latest cut of the film, incorporating the extra material from the Argentinian print, premiered a [...]	D
An off key version of Le Marseillaise, the French National Anthem, appears in the soundtrack several [...]	D
The effects expert Eugen SchÃ¼fftan created pioneering visual effects for Metropolis. Among the ef [...]	D
Gottfried Huppertz drew inspiration from Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, and combined a classica [...]	D
The nightmare in which workers are fed to Moloch was filmed in the middle of winter. Despite the lig [...]	D
Famed science fiction author H.G. Wells hated this film, and was inspired to write La vita futura (1 [...]	D
The score was rerecorded for the 2001 DVD release of the film with Heller, Berndt conducting the Run [...]	D
In certain versions of the film, Fritz Rasp is credited as playing 'Slim', not the Thin Man.	D
Helene Weigel's debut,	D
The film's subplot about the characters Joh Frederson and Rotwang both being in love with the same w [...]	D
Rotwang has a memorial monument to Hel. While it's explained that Hel was the late wife of Joh Frede [...]	D
Fritz Lang started shooting with a different actor cast as Freder. During the early days of shooting [...]	D
The 1973 Stephen King short story Trucks would explore what might happen when machines rebel against [...]	D
The scene in which scantily clad dancers and nightclub patrons spill out into the streets was filmed [...]	D
Fritz Lang insisted on using real fire for the climactic scene where the false Maria is burnt at the [...]	D
This was the first film ever to be registered in the "Memory of the World-Register" of the UNESCO in [...]	D
The film's plot originated from a novel of the same title written by Thea von Harbou for the sole pu [...]	D
Chaplin would nod to this classic nine years later in Modern Times, with the famous gear scene.	D
As production costs pushed UFA toward bankruptcy, the studio had signed a deal with Paramount Pictur [...]	D
The multiple-exposed sequences were not created in a lab but right during the filming on the set. Th [...]	D
Selected by the Vatican in the "art" category of its list of 45 "great films."	D
The film was restored, recut to use subtitles instead of intertitles, retinted with different colors [...]	D
UFA needed financial help from Famous Players and Metro-Goldwyn to the tune of four million dollars [...]	D
The establishing shots of the city - with cars, planes and elevated trains moving about - were shot [...]	D
Brigitte Helm recalled her experiences of shooting the film in a contemporary interview, saying that [...]	D
UFA invited several trade journal representatives and several film critics to see the film's shootin [...]	D
One of the earliest examples of closed-circuit television shown on film - when Joh Frederson speaks [...]	D
One of the designers/builders of the giant steam powered machine in the film was Albert Sammt. [...]	D
The screenplay itself went through many re-writes, and at one point featured an ending where Freder [...]	D
At two-and-a-half hours in length, the film could not be shown enough times in a day to return UFA's [...]	D
All multiple exposures were done in camera, with the film rewound and re-exposed. For some scenes, t [...]	D
When Fritz Lang was visiting the U.S, in 1924 for the premiere of I Nibelunghi: Sigfrido (1924), he [...]	D
The cast of the film was mostly composed of unknown actors; Heinrich George was a theatre actor, Gus [...]	D
Standing on the deck of the SS Deutschland in 1924 in New York Harbor with his producer friend Erich [...]	D
The film takes place in 2026.	D
Prelude is over 60 minutes	D
In an interview, Fritz Lang reported that "the film was born from my first sight of the skyscrapers [...]	D
In the novelization, the robot is described as a woman "of glass and metal," and her name is Parody; [...]	D
Was chosen by Premiere magazine as one of the "100 Movies That Shook the World" in the October 1998 [...]	D
Rotwang's mechanical right hand was later imitated in Il dottor Stranamore - Ovvero: come ho imparat [...]	D
Adjusting for inflation in June 2007, the budget for Metropolis, 5 million Reichsmarks, was equivale [...]	D
The naughty nightclub Yoshiwara is inspired by and named after an early 17th-Century Tokyo red-light [...]	D
Brigitte Helm's robot costume was extremely uncomfortable to wear. Helm suffered greatly underneath [...]	D
Fritz Lang insisted that Brigitte Helm should wear the robot costume instead of a stunt double. Duri [...]	D
The film drew heavily on biblical sources for several of its key set-pieces. During her first talk t [...]	D
Brigitte Helm's debut.	D
Ranked number 16 non-English-speaking film in the critics' poll conducted by the BBC in 2018.	D
Fritz Lang said that he enjoyed making the film but didn't like it much after it was done.	D
In January 1926, UFA executives met to determine what to do about the increasingly costly production [...]	D
Was so influential on Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster that they named their character [...]	D
For the explosion of the heart machine, Fritz Lang refused to use dummies as stand-ins for the worke [...]	D
The day before this classic was rebroadcast on TCM, September 30, 2022, marked the debut of the Tesl [...]	D
The film is included on Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list.	D
Reportedly one of Adolf Hitler's favorite films.	D
The robot of this film inspired the look for C-3PO in Guerre stellari (1977).	D
The "flooding underground" scene took three weeks to shoot, as Fritz Lang wanted to get the scene ju [...]	D
Much to Fritz Lang's dismay, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels were big fans of the film. Goebbels me [...]	D
Unemployment and inflation were so bad in Germany at the time that the producers had no trouble find [...]	D
Fritz Lang ordered extras to throw themselves towards powerful jets of water when filming the floodi [...]	D
One of the major changes that Giorgio Moroder made in his 1984 version of the film was to change the [...]	D
This film is one of Guillermo del Toro's personal favorite films.	D
When Rotwang shows Fredersen the robot, it is Brigitte Helm, not a stunt performer, inside the robot [...]	D
Gottfried Huppertz's music played a prominent role during the film's production. Sometimes, the comp [...]	D
Brigitte Helm said in a contemporary interview that the amount of pressure that Fritz Lang put upon [...]	D

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