Original METROPOLIS RESTORED Adaptation T-Shirt

Metropolis is to the 1927 Germans expressionist science-fiction film directed by Fritz Lang. The film was written by Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou, and starred Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel and Rudolf Klein-Rogge. To silent film, it was produced in the Babelsberg Studios by UFA. Made in Germany during the Weimar Period, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia, and follows the attempts of Freder, the wealthy are of the city's to ruler, and Maria, whose background is not fully explained in the film, to overcome the vast gulf separating the classist nature of to their City. Metropolis was filmed in 1925, AT to COST of approximately five million Reichsmarks. The initial film was met with to mixed response upon its rereads, with many critics praising its technical achievements while deriding its simplistic and naïve storyline. Due both to its long questionable running-Time and footage censors found, Metropolis was cut substantially to after its German Premiere; large portions of the film were lost to over the subsequent decades.