Metropolis

Name: Metropolis
Genre: Sci-Fi
Released: 1927
Duration: 150 min

年份: 1927 (以英语打开)
导演: Fritz Lang (以英语打开)
片长: 150分钟Murnau Foundation 2010 restoration 版本资料来源 ↓

A vast silent city of the future, still staggering.

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制片国家: Germany (以英语打开)

Strange Beautiful Bleak 容易入门 · 中等 Sci-Fi

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Metropolis — Monumental ivory lettering rises over a mechanical city and a small copper heart.

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Metropolis: Maria, the robot and the two plans

Joh Fredersen rules the city; Freder is his son. Maria brings the workers’ world into Freder’s sheltered life. Rotwang is the inventor whose machine will make it possible to turn a familiar face against the people who trust it. Keeping father and son separate is the first useful step through the story. The Murnau Foundation’s film record identifies these relationships.

Is Maria the robot? Story spoilers

There are two figures with Maria’s face. The human Maria remains a separate person: Rotwang abducts her and copies her appearance onto his already-existing machine. Brigitte Helm plays both roles.

One face, two very different actions
Figure	What to follow
Human Maria	Calls for a mediator; later helps Freder rescue the children.
The machine in Maria’s likeness	Incites destruction; its human appearance conceals the metal body.

Why do Fredersen and Rotwang use her?

Fredersen wants to manipulate the workers through Maria’s double. Rotwang secretly wants revenge: he intends the machine to destroy Fredersen’s city and son. Their apparent cooperation hides opposing purposes. Hel, Freder’s mother, is the woman Rotwang lost to Fredersen; that rivalry gives his scheme its personal force. The restoration programme, pages 8–9 and 24, sets out the two plans and credits Helm’s double role.

Watch what each Maria asks a crowd to do. A familiar face can carry authority before anyone stops to question the command. The confusion belongs to the characters; keeping the two figures distinct lets us see how that trust is being used.

What does the ending’s handshake mean? Ending spoilers

After the flood and rescue, Freder brings his father and the workers’ foreman together. The handshake gives the film’s head, heart and hands metaphor three visible roles:

HeadJoh Fredersen
Authority
HeartFreder
The mediator
HandsThe workers’ foreman
Labour

The Murnau programme’s synopsis describes the reconciliation. Read the gesture alongside the enormous buildings and machines we have seen: the ending offers a human connection across that division. Whether a handshake can answer everything those spaces have shown is a question the final image leaves us to carry away.

Choosing a copy? The Metropolis restoration guide explains the recovered footage and how to identify the 2010 reconstruction.

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你将看到什么

Metropolis imagines the modern city as both miracle and machine. Monumental buildings, choreographed crowds, and expressive sets turn a class conflict into a visual fable that can be understood before any intertitle appears. Its ideas are broad, but its images remain vivid: technology promises abundance, bodies pay the cost, and the future looks magnificent enough to make its dangers tempting.

如何轻松入门

Choose a restored edition and check the runtime, since shorter versions can make an already broad story feel abrupt. The class allegory is intentionally simple: the city above, the workers below, and a privileged young man who begins to see the connection. Follow the architecture and crowd movement when the plot grows busy; the film explains power most clearly through space.

观影提醒

简要提示，并非详尽清单 Includes industrial disaster, mass panic, threats to children, violence, and dehumanizing images of labor.

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The machines are enormous, but the detail I remember is the rhythm of bodies entering and leaving them. Metropolis is most persuasive when design becomes an argument: elevators, clocks, stairways, and crowds all tell us who controls time. Its politics can be blunt, yet its city still feels like a future dreaming about us.

— Momo

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版本概览

比较不同版本： Metropolis: Which Restoration Should You Watch?

Murnau Foundation 2010 restoration 150 min · restoration · DE · 2010-02-12 The Murnau Foundation DCP catalogue gives the exact duration as 149:36. Kino Lorber lists 148 minutes and Eureka 150 minutes for releases of this same reconstruction; those rounded listings are not evidence of different cuts. 来源：Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung — Silent-film DCP catalogue 来源：Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung — 2010 restoration premiere programme 来源：Kino Lorber — The Complete Metropolis 来源：Eureka Entertainment — Metropolis 片长参考资料 · 核查日期：2026-07-29

1927 Berlin premiere version (historical estimate) 153 min · original release · DE · 1927-01-10 The Murnau Foundation's current film record gives 4,174 metres and 153 minutes. This is a historical estimate, not the runtime of a complete surviving print or a modern presentation. 来源：Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung — 2010 restoration premiere programme 来源：Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung — Metropolis film record 核查日期：2026-07-29