Metropolis

We will be celebrating the birthday of Kino Sõprus in April by screening films from each decade of our cinema's history. The last film in the programme is Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (1927). A vision of the future taking place in the year 2026.

In the city of the future, while the rich live well above, the workers below are a bad #2 to the machines. Architecture-named Lang’s futuristic nightmare merges Deco with German Expressionism, “dominated by cubistic architecture and the geometric patterns created by painted shadows and surging crowds.”

“One of the last examples of the imaginative — but often monstrous — grandeur of the Golden Period of the German film, METROPOLIS is a spectacular example of Expressionist design.”
– Pauline Kael, New Yorker

“The starting-point of so much modern cinema.”
– Anthony Quinn, Independent

“One of the icons of the silent era.”
– Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times