Metropolis

What links film and architecture? Above all it is Metropolis, the film that Fritz Lang made in the Babelsberg studios in 1925/26. Its extravagance created enormous financial difficulties for Ufa, the biggest German film concern, but it had a brilliant premiere in Berlin in January 1927, went on to enjoy unparalleled success world-wide - and then came to symbolize (film) architectural design for the future. Metropolis, internationally renowned as a major piece of German film culture, represents film art in the Weimar Republic in an artistically unique and yet unusually popular way, but it also contains one of the first fully-formulated 20th-century city fantasies. Fritz Lang, stimulated by a journey to New York, had his architect Erich Kettelhut build a city of the future in the Babelsberg Studios outside Berlin, which, as a vision, went far beyond the real skyscraper silhouette.
Luis Bunuel wrote the following about Metropolis as early as 1927: "Henceforth and for ever more the scenic designer has been replaced by the architect. The cinema will serve as a time interpreter of the architect's boldest dreams."
The Tower of Babel from Metropolis has been a piece of urban fantasy that has inspired architects of every colour right down to the present day. American urban visions in films of the 80s and 90s, like for instance the cult film Blade Runner, would be inconceivable without Lang's Metro-polis. Now as then the Metropolis designs are considered to be highly-developed examples of a Modemist laboratory for film and architecture.


Autorentext
Wolfgang Jacobsen, geb. 1953, verantwortet den Bereich Publikationen und Forschung an der Deutschen Kinemathek in Berlin, zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen zu Film und Literatur. Werner Sudendorf studierte nach einer fünfjährigen Tätigkeit als Verlagsbuchhändler im Karl Hanser Verlag Philosophie, Publizistik und Theaterwissenschaft in Berlin. Seit 1980 leitet er die Abteilung Sammlungen der Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek.

Klappentext
The film that Fritz Lang made in the Babelsberg studios near Berlin in 1925 includes one of the first 20th-century city fantasies.

Inhalt
1;Inhalt;5 2;Contents;5 3;Vorbemerkung;6 4;Preliminary remarks;7 5;Metropolis. Jahrzehnte voraus – Jahrtausende zurück;8 6;Metropolis. Decades ahead – millennia behind;8 7;Von der Arbeit an Metropolis: Werkphotos;40 8;About work on Metropolis. Photos of the cast and crew at work;40 9;Metropolis. Eine Inhaltsangabe;74 10;Metropolis. A summary;75 11;Metropolis: Szenenphotos;84 12;Metropolis: Scenery shots;84 13;Notizen zur Überlieferung des Films Metropolis;208 14;Notes on the proliferation of the film Metropolis;209 15;Anmerkungen;218 16;Notes;219 17;Chronik;222 18;Chronicle;223 19;Filmo-bibliographische Daten;226 20;Filmo-bibliographical data;227 21;Photonachweise / Photo credits;240

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