The film was the most expensive production in the history of uva studios. Palmer did an immense amount of clashing of different styles inside, didn't he? Metropolis is the story of a young man named frader, who was the son of the owner of metropolis,. The huge city employs factory workers who are exploited by a by this head of metropolis that freder is rebelling against. Freder falls in love with a woman named maria, who is a trying to lead the workers into a much more enlightened state and too effectively to revolt against the master.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian-born film director Fritz Lang (1890-1976), who was one of the most celebrated film-makers of the 20th century. He worked first in Weimar Germany, creating a range of films including the startling and subversive Mabuse the Gambler and the iconic but ruinously expensive Metropolis before arguably his masterpiece, M, with both the police and the underworld hunting for a child killer in Berlin, his first film with sound. The rise of the Nazis prompted Lang's move to Hollywood where he developed some of his Weimar themes in memorable and disturbing films such as Fury and The Big Heat.
With
Stella Bruzzi
Professor of Film and Dean of Arts and Humanities at University College London
Joe McElhaney
Professor of Film Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York
And
Iris Luppa
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies in the Division of Film and Media at London South Bank University
Producer: Simon Tillotson