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The Complete Metropolis [Blu-ray]

Gustav Froehlich (Actor), Heather Hunter (Actor), Fritz Lang (Director) Rated:
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Genre Historical, Science Fiction
Format NTSC, Blu-ray, Dolby, Surround Sound, Limited Edition
Contributor Hans Leo Reich, Alfred Abel, Heinrich George, Fritz Alberti, Rose Lichtenstein, Erich Pommer, Theodor Loos, Erwin Vater, Olaf Storm, Margrete Lanner, Gustav Froehlich, Fritz Rasp, Heather Hunter, Brigitte Helm, Heinrich Gotho, Max Dietze, Grete Berger, Olaf Strom, Gustav Frolich, Arthur Reinhard, Erwin Biswanger, Giorgio Moroder, Erik Frey, Georg John, Chelsea Sinclaire, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Lang, Lisa Gray, Margarete Lanner See more
Language English
Runtime 2 hours and 28 minutes
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Incorporating more than 25 minutes of newly discovered footage, this 2010 restoration of METROPOLIS is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang's science fiction masterpiece. Backed by a new recording of Gottfried Huppertz's 1927 score, the film's dazzling visual design and special effects are more striking than ever. And the integration of scenes and subplots long considered lost endows METROPOLIS with even greater tension and emotional resonance, as it dramatizes the conflict between wealthy uber-capitalists and rebellious subterranean laborers - orchestrated by a diabolical scientist capable of destroying them both.

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Fritz Lang's Metropolis belongs to legend as much as to cinema. It's a milestone of sci-fi and German expressionism. Yet the story makes minimal sense, and the "theme" belongs in a fortune cookie; to experience the film's pagan power, you have to see the movie. But for decades we couldn't, not really--not with so many versions, all incomplete, often in public-domain prints like smudged photocopies. This Murnau Foundation restoration changes all that. Some shots, scenes, and subplots may be lost forever, but intertitles indicate how they fit into the original continuity and the characters' individual trajectories. Most crucially, the images are crisp, vibrant, and three-dimensional instead of murky and flattened. The composite sequences (the Tower of Babel, a sea of lusting eyes) have been restored to their hallucinatory ferocity. And there's one moment when you can see a bead of sweat roll down a man's cheek--in medium long-shot. --Richard T. Jameson

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.4 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 15060688
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Fritz Lang
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Blu-ray, Dolby, Surround Sound, Limited Edition
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 28 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ November 23, 2010
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Gustav Froehlich, Heather Hunter, Brigitte Helm, Chelsea Sinclaire, Alfred Abel
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Erich Pommer
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Kino Lorber films
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0040QYROK
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.9 out of 5 stars 1,452 ratings

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Customers praise this restored version of Metropolis as a brilliant film with excellent remastering of the score and high-resolution sound. The movie features an epic sci-fi story and original orchestral score, with one customer noting how it effectively conveys the mood of each scene. While the picture quality receives mixed reviews, with some finding it sublime while others describe it as unwatchable, customers appreciate the complete version of the original film.

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91 customers mention "Movie quality"91 positive0 negative

Customers praise this restored version of Metropolis, describing it as a classic cinema gem with excellent remastering of the score.

"...a good quality print, nothing more or less, other than very good remastering of the score and a new 5.1 mix...." Read more

"...complete edition blue ray has added footage that really does an excellent job at the end of this film!..." Read more

"I worked in AI and robotics for many years and find this bit of fantasy entertaining...." Read more

"Masterpiece film... Finally got to see restored film in it's almost complete entirety.... other versions produced decades earlier were cut up..." Read more

38 customers mention "Storyline"35 positive3 negative

Customers appreciate the storyline of this science fiction film, describing it as well thought out and fascinating, with one customer noting its interesting history.

"...The story is excellent, the plots are well done, and the ending of it is a sincere triumph!" Read more

"...footage, scratchy though it is, adds incredible coherence and depth to the story and the restored intertitles go a long way in clearing up the..." Read more

"...and breakthroughs in the history of film – this is a tale of science fiction – and politics...." Read more

"...don't get -- and let's be frank -- the film itself has as many cringe worthy moments...." Read more

35 customers mention "Sound quality"35 positive0 negative

Customers praise the sound quality of this silent film, noting its high-resolution audio and brilliant production.

"...It is a good HD transfer from a good quality print, nothing more or less, other than very good remastering of the score and a new 5.1 mix...." Read more

"...be finding new adjectives to describe how amazed I am at the quality of this disc...." Read more

"...Or any of the other releases we’ve ever seen. One of the greatest silent films ever made...." Read more

"...Good if not perfect picture quality restoration, great sound quality for the score and excellent overall packaging of a brilliant film makes this..." Read more

24 customers mention "Restoration quality"20 positive4 negative

Customers praise the restoration of the film, describing it as brilliant and beautiful, with one customer highlighting the fascinating restoration process.

"...Kino has done an excellent restoration job both in finding as much of the lost material and hence making this as complete a version of the original..." Read more

"...20s, its simply amazing that it exists, was located and reunited with the original material...." Read more

"...The movie has an interesting history and the restoration process was also fascinating to me." Read more

"...And it has been given the best restoration anyone could hope for...." Read more

24 customers mention "Soundtrack quality"18 positive6 negative

Customers love the soundtrack of the movie, particularly appreciating the original orchestral score and 80's music contribution.

"...Choose the first Kino restoration (2003) for the original orchestral score, consistently high visual quality, and a very helpful and interesting..." Read more

"...The Blu-Ray presentation is crystal clear and the orchestral soundtrack is performed in accordance with the original's live accompanying..." Read more

"...Not only is the music fun eighties, it's also emotional, suspenseful, and epic when it needs to be...." Read more

"...I know the music is dated (being all 80's based) and not what Fritz Lanz imagined, but even Fritz noted back in his day he was more of a 'visual'..." Read more

17 customers mention "Narrative quality"14 positive3 negative

Customers praise the movie's narrative for its imaginative storytelling and complex themes, with one customer noting how effectively it conveys the mood of each scene.

"...The restored footage, scratchy though it is, adds incredible coherence and depth to the story and the restored intertitles go a long way in..." Read more

"...The movie itself brings up some complex themes but doesn’t explicitly resolve all of them. It has elements to it which are very ambiguous...." Read more

"...The film uses powerful, yet simple metaphors to get it's message across, and pretty much goes straight to the white hot center of what it is trying..." Read more

"...The story is universal and shockingly enlightening considering it was made between WWI and the NAZI's rise to power (copyright 1926)...." Read more

13 customers mention "Completeness"13 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the completeness of the Blu-ray, with several noting it's the most complete version available, and one mentioning it includes the original score.

"...In addition, a complete original score with timing marks allowed this version to be accurately portrayed as close to the 1927 original as possible...." Read more

"...released in the 1980s, Moroder's Metropolis was the most complete version of the film available...." Read more

"...This is the best version to get." Read more

"...It's great to see the most complete version put together on blu-ray...." Read more

59 customers mention "Picture quality"41 positive18 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the movie's picture quality, with some finding it consistently high and sublime, while others report that the print is in poor quality and unwatchable.

"...In fact, it was the most complete and coherent presentation of Lang's film available until a beautiful restoration made and screened in 2002, and..." Read more

"...This complete edition blue ray has added footage that really does an excellent job at the end of this film!..." Read more

"...So there is a little jerkiness here and there, a little blur, and a little grain...." Read more

"...The product itself is a good recording of the film. j Well done.." Read more

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  • T FRED
    5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece
    Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2025
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    Masterpiece film... Finally got to see restored film in it's almost complete entirety.... other versions produced decades earlier were cut up versions...We need to support these older films since most have been destroyed over time..
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  • Happy Flyfishers
    5.0 out of 5 stars A fun view of AI and society from long ago
    Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2025
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    I worked in AI and robotics for many years and find this bit of fantasy entertaining. I have seen it several times but still enjoy this very old view of where AI would go. The product itself is a good recording of the film. j Well done..
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  • RL Erwin IV
    5.0 out of 5 stars This belongs in the SCIENCE FICTION archives!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2025
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    Fritz Langs nineteen twenties silent film was the precursor to many of today's science fiction films and it's easy to see why! This complete edition blue ray has added footage that really does an excellent job at the end of this film! The story is excellent, the plots are well done, and the ending of it is a sincere triumph!
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  • Joseph L. Ponessa
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Moment in Film History
    Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2011
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    I used to possess the laserdisc release of Moroder's Metropolis, and have kicked myself for many years for ever parting with it. I replaced it with a Japanese import laserdisc which documented the pathetic state of preservation the film was in before Moroder did his restoration. Moroder found and incorporated fragments of footage, including scenes from the opening pleasure garden and the still of the original Maria's tomb monument, adding tantalizing perspective and characterization to what had survived as a bombastic allegory. I was thrilled to hear of the eventual discovery of nearly all the missing footage in Argentina, and even more thrilled when the fully restored film appeared on blu-ray last year. If you don't have that one, buy it in preference to the Moroder. But if you have the full restoration, then why not get the Moroder, too? It documents an important phase in the eventual reincarnation of this film.
    What about the score? It is a futuristic 1920's film, and the 1980's music seems to work with it somehow. During the "silent" era live music accompanied projection of the film, so there was great flexibility in sound. In large theaters, an organ or orchestra would accompany the projection, while in small theaters there would be a piano or small organ. Now, nearly a century later, home video releases have all kinds of newly recorded soundtracks, from piano to organ to orchestra. Some releases provide alternative soundtracks, so that one can choose from two or more options. If one does not like any of the soundtracks, one can always turn the sound off and watch the film silently. So, I welcome the release of Moroder's version, which is not the definitive Metropolis of all time, but was as close to definitive as one could get at the time.

    PS 21 March 2012. Finally I have been able to compare the Moroder blu-ray with the Complete Metropolis blu-ray, both from Kino and both superlative. The Moroder transfer is just as crisp on their shared material, and sometimes crisper. The tinting occasionally obscures detail (faces of the children on their entrance scene) but mostly enhances the composition of the scene (stadium in brown with blue skies and white clouds above). Moroder's use of conversational subtitles instead of intertitles helps the dramatic flow, and reduces the feeling of seeing a lecture instead of a film. Moroder's musical score once in a while gets cloying, but respects the scene changes and moods more so than most silent scores. One would never want to do without the extra footage presented on the Complete Metropolis, but Moroder's version is a serious piece of film rejuvenation, which proved that there was a public interested in the restoration of silent films. Moroder made the Complete Metropolis feasible.
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  • Michael A. Kepler
    5.0 out of 5 stars A release many never expected to see.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2012
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    Given the legal entanglements and conflicts it seemed unlikely that there would ever again be an official release of Moroder's restoration/scoring of Lang's Metropolis. I'm very glad they worked things out.

    Having said that, I was disappointed that little or no restoration work per-se was done to this release. It is a good HD transfer from a good quality print, nothing more or less, other than very good remastering of the score and a new 5.1 mix. I understand that, at the time he made it, Moroder was forced to print flaws in the then-available footage into his negative, but even the opening titles added by Moroder have a lot of visible scratches and jitter (the image shaking, primarily in the vertical direction, usually due to worn sprocket holes in the film). While I understand and respect that there was a conscious decision to present Moroder's restoration in it's original form, and it would extremely difficult to do much about earlier-generation damage printed onto the available copy, flaws due to wear in the Moroder print itself should have been corrected, and Kino has previously demonstrated masterful skill at doing so.

    So far I have only addressed this release from a technical standpoint, ignoring the fact that there is an entire generation of people who have never seen and heard this version of Metropolis. I can't give you any objective guidance, as I am a fan of both versions of this film. I will at least point out that, while he did take some artistic liberties with tinting, titling, and scoring, Moroder's was an earnest and impressive effort to restore the film and it's story as much as possible with the resources available to him at the time. In fact, it was the most complete and coherent presentation of Lang's film available until a beautiful restoration made and screened in 2002, and released on DVD in 2003. For the 1980's audience, Moroder's version was more a entertaining and comprehensible presentation, and for many people, may remain so today.

    If you are watching Metropolis for the first time, which restoration to choose primarily depends upon your sensibilities regarding the score. Choose the Moroder for an excellent 1980's pop and rock score, and a shorter run-time. Choose the first Kino restoration (2003) for the original orchestral score, consistently high visual quality, and a very helpful and interesting commentary track. Sadly, the more complete, if inconsistent, 2010 Kino restoration omits a commentary track. Ultimately, I recommend seeing all three, but I am far from objective about this film.

    There is an arguably better fan restoration of the Moroder version for those who seek it out, but you will want to buy this one as well anyway.
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  • Choren
    5.0 out of 5 stars Maravillosa!!
    Reviewed in Mexico on December 14, 2018
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    Ésta es la versión de Giorgio Moroder, en la que él quitó partes de la película, agregó otras y le puso canciones y música de los ochentas. La película de Lang, dependiendo de la versión y del trabajo de restauración, dura más de hora cuarenta, mientras que ésta dura solamente una hora y veinte minutos aproximadamente. Hay personas que comentan que no les gusta, para mí es una joya. Vale muchísimo la pena tenerla y experimentar la forma en que la música de Moroder cambia totalmente la percepción de la película con respecto a las otras versiones de la misma. Si eres amante o estás interesado en el cine mudo, no dudes comprarla!
    P.D. Hay un error en la información del blu-ray, éste no tiene subtítulos en español, sólo en inglés (sólo la edición española viene subtitulada en español).
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  • M. Britton
    5.0 out of 5 stars The restoration done on this blu-ray is AWESOME!!!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 7, 2010
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    I cannot believe what I did...went out and bought a region free blu-ray player to watch Eureka's METROPOLIS on blu-ray Metropolis [Reconstructed & Restored] (Masters of Cinema) Limited Edition Dual Format Steelbook [Blu-ray & DVD]. You know what? It is worth it!! Was disappointed to find out that this blu-ray is region B and the DVD region 2...oh, that made me mad! Why would someone 'lock' an old classic like this? Would think it would be region free. Then I remember how Criterion here in the states treats you with locking their classics with region A. Just does not make sense. Let everyone enjoy these classics...stop being money hogs!
    Anyway, glad to have had the honor of witnessing Eureka's METROPOLIS because they did a wonderful job on bringing this classic to blu-ray. I knew in the past of Kino's DVDs/blu rays here in the states are nothing to write home about, so I took the plunge into region B territory...and I love it! The UK discs look and sound so much better than the ones here in the states. Don't ask me why, they just are. This copy of METROPLOIS proves my point. After viewing a friend's copy of Kino's version...there is no comparison! The UK release really stands out!!
    If you are on the fence about 'region-freeing' it here in the states, DO IT! Got my player for a little over 120 bucks and I love it! Cannot stop ordering region 2 DVDs and region B blu rays. Thanks to Amazon UK for making it easier for us in the US to order your discs (although still can't order from market sellers for some reason)and kudos for Eureka for brilliant blu-rays like this one.
    Since, I have ordered other Eureka titles and can't wait to give them a spin in my new player!
    Cheers!!
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  • javiersaga
    5.0 out of 5 stars Obra maestra de la ciencia ficción
    Reviewed in Spain on September 4, 2020
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    Interesante pack de blu ray y dvd donde poder disfrutar de este maravilloso clásico. Si además le añades la inclusión de escenas desaparecidas en su momento (bastantes minutos de metraje), es un aliciente más para su adquisición.
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  • Stephen Parker
    5.0 out of 5 stars A well restored version of Fritz Lang's masterpiece.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 22, 2015
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    I had previously only ever seen short extracts of the film on television over the years (from the severely cut Paramount version made for the US) and accordingly had a completely distorted view of its content, assuming it to be an uncritical semi-documentary homage to modernism whereas it provides rather a warning of the dangers of a society in which the head (capitalism) and the hand (labour) lack a mediator (the human heart). This mediation is, at the end of the film, rather naively provided by Freder, the formerly idle son of the arch capitalist Joh Frederson, who has encountered the workers in their subterranean city and falls for their spokeswoman, Maria. Nor is there any shade of irony when the true representative of labour in this denouement is seen to be one Grot, Joh Frederson's erstwhile informer in the workers' city. However, the set designs for the city of the future are wonderfully imaginative and the special effects seem quite marvellous for the time, most of all in the scene where the feminine robot created by the evil inventor, Rotwang, is animated with the spirit of the captured Maria. Best of all is the expressionistic acting, which conveys the drama of the silent film extremely well, with only a minimum use of intertitles. although it can look rather comical at times to a present day viewer. The film itself is often of remarkably good restored quality with only a relatively few grainy, damaged parts derived from the full print discovered in Buenos Aires which was itself a print of the original and thus bore the indelible, unrestorable, scars of the damaged original but which enabled the restorers to reintroduce the Paramount cuts. (This is explained fully in the very good documentary footage that also comes with this package.) I would recommend this film to anyone who enjoys watching 1920s cinema and especially to anyone who has my originally mistaken view of what Metropolis was all about.
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  • Rheinskalde
    5.0 out of 5 stars Sehr gute Version - ein Filmklassiker in verschiedenen Varianten
    Reviewed in Germany on October 3, 2017
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    Sowohl die ausgezeichnet rekonstruierte Version des Filmes durch die Fr. W. Murnau Stiftung aus dem Jahr 2010,
    als auch die bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt als vollständigste Fassung geltende Giorgio Moroder Fassung finden sich in dieser Stealbox.
    Beide sehr gut.
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