1. Soon after its premiere,
the film MetropolisCopy !req
2. was severely truncated
and alterations were made.Copy !req
3. From that time onward,
more than a quarter of the filmCopy !req
4. was assumed to have been lost.Copy !req
5. Then, in 2008, a virtually complete
version of the filmCopy !req
6. was discovered in Buenos Aires.
What had been preservedCopy !req
7. was, however, a heavily damaged
copy of the filmCopy !req
8. that had been printed to 16mm
film stock,Copy !req
9. lacking the full frame
of the picture's original aspect ratio.Copy !req
10. A considerable amount of the film
reconstruction was able to be completedCopy !req
11. and the correct sequence
of its editingCopy !req
12. established by means
of this Argentinian material.Copy !req
13. Spanish intertitles have been translated
into GermanCopy !req
14. with the aid of the censor-cards.Copy !req
15. In order to display in their correct
position on the imageCopy !req
16. the cropped elements taken
from the 16mm negative,Copy !req
17. the missing portion of the frame
has been marked by black.Copy !req
18. The intertitles appear
with their original graphic treatment.Copy !req
19. Those titles which appear in a different
typefaceCopy !req
20. have been added to summarise
the content of still-missing scenesCopy !req
21. as far as is necessary
to facilitateCopy !req
22. an adequate understanding
of the storyline.Copy !req
23. Shorter gaps are indicated
by small segments of black leader.Copy !req
24. This film was produced by Ufa
and is distributed courtesy of Parufamet.Copy !req
25. Fritz Lang.
Thea von Harbou.Copy !req
26. Production Design: Otto Hunte,
Erich Kettelhut, Karl Vollbrecht.Copy !req
27. At the Camera:
Karl Freund, Günther Rittau.Copy !req
28. Gottfried Huppertz.
Walter Schultze-Mittendorf.Copy !req
29. Metropolis, a novel
by Thea von Harbou,Copy !req
30. appeared in the publication
Illustriertes Blatt, Frankfurt,Copy !req
31. and in book form
from August Scherl Verlag G.m.b.H.Copy !req
32. The personages in the film:Copy !req
33. Joh Fredersen - Alfred AbelCopy !req
34. Freder, Joh Fredersen's son -
Gustav FröhlichCopy !req
35. Rotwang, the inventor
- Rudolf Klein-RoggeCopy !req
36. The Thin Man - Fritz Rasp
Josaphat - Theodor LoosCopy !req
37. 11811 - Erwin BiswangerCopy !req
38. Grot, the guardian of the Heart-Machine -
Heinrich GeorgeCopy !req
39. The Creative Man
The Machine-ManCopy !req
40. Death
The Seven Deadly SinsCopy !req
41. Maria - Brigitte HelmCopy !req
42. MUST BE THE HEART!Copy !req
43. Shift change.Copy !req
44. Deep beneathCopy !req
45. the earth lay theCopy !req
46. City of the Workers.Copy !req
47. As deep beneath the earth
as the City of the Workers lay,Copy !req
48. so high above it towered the complex
known as the "Sons' Club",Copy !req
49. with its lecture halls and libraries,
its theatres and stadiums.Copy !req
50. Fathers, for whom every revolution
of a mechanical wheel meant gold,Copy !req
51. had bestowed upon their sons
the wonder of the Eternal Gardens.Copy !req
52. Which of you ladies shall todayCopy !req
53. have the honour of entertaining Master Freder,
Joh Fredersen's son?Copy !req
54. Look! These are your brothers!Copy !req
55. Look - !Copy !req
56. These are your brothers!Copy !req
57. Who - was that?Copy !req
58. But this was what happened to Freder -Copy !req
59. the son of Joh Fredersen,
the master of Metropolis -Copy !req
60. as he sought out the girl:Copy !req
61. To the new Tower of Babel -
to my father - !Copy !req
62. Why is it, Josaphat, that I learn of this explosion
from my son, and not from you - !Copy !req
63. Details - !Copy !req
64. What were you looking for
in the Machine-Halls, Freder?Copy !req
65. I wanted to look into the faces of the people
whose little children are my brothers, my sisters...Copy !req
66. Your magnificent city, Father -Copy !req
67. and you the brain of this city -
and all of us within the light of this city... -Copy !req
68. and where are the people, Father,
whose hands built your city - ?Copy !req
69. Off where they belong...Copy !req
70. off where they belong...?Copy !req
71. in the Depths...?Copy !req
72. And if those in the Depths
one day rise against you?Copy !req
73. The chief foreman of the Heart-Machine, Grot, -
with an important message...Copy !req
74. There were two more copies
of those damnable plans, Herr Fredersen...Copy !req
75. in the pockets of two men who met
with an accident today at the M-Machine...Copy !req
76. How is it, Josaphat, that these plans
were brought to me by Grot, rather than by you?Copy !req
77. Apply to the G-Bank
for your remaining wages...Copy !req
78. Father, do you know what it means
to be dismissed by you? -Copy !req
79. It means: To be sent below! -
Father - below! Into the Depths - !Copy !req
80. Do you know what it means to be dismissed
like that by Joh Fredersen?Copy !req
81. Would you like to come with me,
Josaphat?Copy !req
82. Go home, Josaphat, and wait for me...
I still have a long way to go tonight...Copy !req
83. Into the Depths, -
to my brothers...Copy !req
84. From today on I wish to be kept precisely informed
of my son's every move...Copy !req
85. Brother...Copy !req
86. the Machine! There needs
to be someone at the Machine!Copy !req
87. There will be someone at the machine...Copy !req
88. ME.Copy !req
89. Listen to me...
I want to trade my life with you...Copy !req
90. Josaphat.
99th Block. House 7, 7th Floor.Copy !req
91. Wait for me -
both of you...Copy !req
92. Josaphat.
99th Block. House 7, 7th Floor.Copy !req
93. In the middle of Metropolis,Copy !req
94. there stands a strange house
that the centuries had overlooked.Copy !req
95. The man who dwelled within
was Rotwang, the inventor.Copy !req
96. HelCopy !req
97. Born to bring me happiness
and a benediction to all mankind.Copy !req
98. Lost to Joh Fredersen.
Died giving life to Freder, Joh Fredersen's son.Copy !req
99. A mind like yours, Rotwang,
should be able to forget...Copy !req
100. Only one time in life did I forget something:
that Hel was a woman - and you a man...Copy !req
101. Let the dead lie, Rotwang...
She's dead for you as she is for me...Copy !req
102. For me she isn't dead, Joh Fredersen -
for me she lives - !Copy !req
103. Do you think the loss of a hand
is too high a price for recreating Hel -?Copy !req
104. Do you wish to see her -?Copy !req
105. Now, Joh Fredersen -?Copy !req
106. Isn't it worth losing a hand
to have created the man of the future -Copy !req
107. the Machine-Man -?Copy !req
108. 24 more hours of work -Copy !req
109. and no man, Joh Fredersen, will be able
to differentiate the Machine-Man from a mortal - !Copy !req
110. The woman is mine, Joh Fredersen!
Hel's son was yours!Copy !req
111. And what brings you my way,
Joh Fredersen?Copy !req
112. I need your advice -
as usual, when all my experts fail me...Copy !req
113. Can you decipher for me these plansCopy !req
114. that for months have been getting discovered
in the pockets of my workers?Copy !req
115. at two... once my shift ends!
She has summoned us again...Copy !req
116. Father - ! Father - !
Will ten hours never come to an end -?Copy !req
117. - it's a blueprint
of the two-thousand-year-old catacombsCopy !req
118. deep below the lowest levels
of your Metropolis...Copy !req
119. I should like to glean what my workers
are doing exactly in those catacombs...Copy !req
120. Today I shall tell youCopy !req
121. the legend of THE CONSTRUCTION
OF THE TOWER OF BABEL...Copy !req
122. The Legend of THE CONSTRUCTIONCopy !req
123. Come! Let us build a tower
whose zenith shall reach unto the stars!Copy !req
124. And at the tower's zenith we shall write:Copy !req
125. Great is the world and its Maker!
And great is Man!Copy !req
126. but those who had conceived
of the Tower of BabelCopy !req
127. could not build the Tower of Babel.Copy !req
128. The task was too great.
So they paid wages to outside hands...Copy !req
129. But the hands that built the Tower of Babel
knew nothing of the dreamCopy !req
130. of which the head that had conceived it
had been fantasising.Copy !req
131. The hymns of praise of one man
became the curses of others.Copy !req
132. The same language was spoken,
but these men did not understand one another...Copy !req
133. Great is the world and its Maker
and great is ManCopy !req
134. HEAD and HANDS require a Mediator.Copy !req
135. MUST BE THE HEART!Copy !req
136. And where is our Mediator,
Maria - ?Copy !req
137. Wait for him!
He will surely come!Copy !req
138. We will wait, Maria...!
But not for much longer - !Copy !req
139. Oh Mediator,
have you finally come...Copy !req
140. You summoned me -
here I am!Copy !req
141. Rotwang, give the Machine-Man
the likeness of this woman...Copy !req
142. I shall sow discord
between them and her!Copy !req
143. I shall destroy their belief
in this woman -Copy !req
144. Leave me alone now, Joh Fredersen...
You'll find the way back without me...Copy !req
145. You fool! Now you shall also lose
the last remaining thing you still had from Hel...Copy !req
146. your son...Copy !req
147. Until tomorrow, in the cathedral!Copy !req
148. Freder witnesses a monk at the pulpit
who preaches:Copy !req
149. "Verily, I say unto you: the days
of which the Apocalypse speaks draw nigh!"Copy !req
150. The monk's hand points to the Bible,
in which it is written:Copy !req
151. "And I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured
beast, full of names of blasphemy,Copy !req
152. having seven heads and ten horns.Copy !req
153. And the woman was arrayed
in purple and scarlet colour,Copy !req
154. having a golden cup in her hand.Copy !req
155. And upon her forehead was a name
written, a mystery:Copy !req
156. BABYLON THE GREAT, the Mother
of Abominations of the Earth.Copy !req
157. And I saw the woman drunken
with the blood of the Saints."Copy !req
158. You will annihilate Joh Fredersen -
him and his city and his son - !Copy !req
159. Had you come earlier,
you wouldn't have frightened me...Copy !req
160. I now beg of you: stay away from me
and my beloved...!Copy !req
161. Where is the one whose clothes
you are wearing?Copy !req
162. Josaphat.
99th Block. House 7, 7th Floor.Copy !req
163. Would you please wake Georgy up?Copy !req
164. He must lead me
to the Workers' City at once...Copy !req
165. No. 11811, get back to the Machine
and forget that you ever left it - understood?Copy !req
166. I have to have someone
who's faithful to me, Josaphat, -Copy !req
167. otherwise, how shall I attain the end-goal
of my path -?Copy !req
168. I must go on, Josaphat, -
must now, on my own,Copy !req
169. seek out the person to whom Georgy
was supposed to lead me...Copy !req
170. Tonight, Josaphat -
tonight when I come back...Copy !req
171. Josaphat.
99th Block. House 7, 7th Floor.Copy !req
172. So, what price are you demanding
for leaving this residence tonight?Copy !req
173. You still don't seem to have grasped
who sent me here...Copy !req
174. This man doesn't want his son
to find you still here tonight!Copy !req
175. In three hours' time
I shall be calling for you!Copy !req
176. Come! It is time to give the Man-Machine
your face!Copy !req
177. Where is Maria -?Copy !req
178. She's with your father...Copy !req
179. I'm telling you,
she is with your father - !Copy !req
180. "She is the most perfect and most obedient tool
that a man has ever possessed!Copy !req
181. Tonight you shall see how she holds up
before the eyes of the upper hundred.Copy !req
182. You shall see her dance, and if only one single
person recognises the machine in her,Copy !req
183. I will call myself a bungler
who never succeeded at anything!Copy !req
184. C. Rotwang"Copy !req
185. "C. A. Rotwang requests Herr Joh Fredersen
to be his guest this evening."Copy !req
186. I want you to go to those in the Depths
in order to annihilate the work of your prototype!Copy !req
187. "C. A. Rotwang requests Herr Joh Fredersen
to be his guest this evening."Copy !req
188. Verily, I say unto you: the days
of which the Apocalypse speaks draw nigh...!Copy !req
189. All Seven Deadly Sins,
on her behalf - !Copy !req
190. Death overtakes the City - !Copy !req
191. The Revelation of St. John
Avalun Publishing, HellerauCopy !req
192. I escaped from the Thin Man
wearing this attire...Copy !req
193. But for ten days your father's bloodhound
has been making the Workers' City unsafe...Copy !req
194. The only thing keeping the workers in checkCopy !req
195. is their expectation for the Mediator
promised unto them...Copy !req
196. Even stranger things
have been happening, Freder...Copy !req
197. On that evening when you fell ill...Copy !req
198. once the best of friends...
because of that woman...Copy !req
199. the other man...
on that same evening...Copy !req
200. the Eternal Gardens lie abandoned...
but night after night in Yoshiwara...Copy !req
201. And this woman,
at whose feet all sins are heaped...Copy !req
202. is also called Maria...Copy !req
203. That same woman that those in the Depths
regard as a saint -?Copy !req
204. Many now go to the City of the Dead,Copy !req
205. to a woman they have judged
to be as true as gold.Copy !req
206. The Mediator is not likely
to miss that occasion...Copy !req
207. Whatever happens tonight:Copy !req
208. it is my express order to allow the workers
to do as they please...Copy !req
209. Joh Fredersen wants to let those in the Depths
use force and do wrongCopy !req
210. so that he can claim the right
to use force against them...Copy !req
211. When you spoke to your poor brothers,
you talked about peace, Maria...Copy !req
212. today a mouthpiece of Joh Fredersen
incites them to rebel against him...Copy !req
213. She will destroy their belief
in the Mediator!Copy !req
214. You know I've always talked about peace...
but your Mediator hasn't come...Copy !req
215. You've waited long enough!
Your time has come - !Copy !req
216. but I've tricked Joh Fredersen!Copy !req
217. Your clone does not obey his will -
only mine alone!Copy !req
218. Who is the living fodder
for the machines for Metropolis -?Copy !req
219. Who smears the machine-joints
with their own marrow -?Copy !req
220. Who feeds the machines
with their own flesh -?Copy !req
221. Let the machines starve, you fools - !
Finish them off -!Copy !req
222. Do them in -
these machines -!Copy !req
223. You aren't Maria -!Copy !req
224. YOU ARE NOT MARIA - !Copy !req
225. Maria talks of peace, not murder - !
This is not Maria -!Copy !req
226. Joh Fredersen's son -!Copy !req
227. Do him in, the dog,
in his white silken hide -!Copy !req
228. Get your women, your sons,
out of the Workers' City!Copy !req
229. Let no-one stay behind!
Death to the machines -!Copy !req
230. In the attic of his home,Copy !req
231. Rotwang displays
for Maria his ever-growing intoxicationCopy !req
232. with his triumph over Fredersen:Copy !req
233. " - and twice over did I trick Joh Fredersen - !Copy !req
234. For I concealed from him that his son
wants to be the Mediator of your brothers -Copy !req
235. and is in love with you - !"Copy !req
236. Maria isn't the only one listening to Rotwang.Copy !req
237. On the other side of the attic's window,
Joh Fredersen was eavesdropping...Copy !req
238. Joh Fredersen breaks into Rotwang's attic.
He wrestles with his old rival and overtakes him.Copy !req
239. Maria is free.Copy !req
240. faithful after all...Copy !req
241. Come, Freder!
We still have to go through the Workers' City.Copy !req
242. Women and men,
let no-one miss out on today - !Copy !req
243. Death to the machines -!Copy !req
244. Not one man -
not one woman has stayed behind - !Copy !req
245. Leave the machines - !
Let them race to their death - !Copy !req
246. To the Heart-Machine - !Copy !req
247. Open the gates!Copy !req
248. You have to open the gates!Copy !req
249. If the Heart-Machine perishes,Copy !req
250. nothing in the Machine-District
will be left standing -!Copy !req
251. Have you lost your minds -?Copy !req
252. If the Heart-Machine perishes,
the entire Workers' City will be laid to waste -!Copy !req
253. Where are your fathers,
your mothers?Copy !req
254. Do you have any idea that your son
is amongst the workers?Copy !req
255. Yes - you! You're Maria - !Copy !req
256. To the air shafts - quickly! Quickly!
The reservoirs have burst! The city is drowning - !Copy !req
257. We'll take the children
to the Sons' Club!Copy !req
258. Why are all the lights out?Copy !req
259. I need to know - !
Where is my son?Copy !req
260. Tomorrow thousands
will ask in fury and desperation:Copy !req
261. Joh Fredersen,
where is my son -?Copy !req
262. Where are your children?Copy !req
263. The city is drowned,
the shafts are totally flooded -!Copy !req
264. Who bade you attack the machines,
without which you're finished, you idiots -?Copy !req
265. It's the witch's fault - !Copy !req
266. We'll be looking on
as the world goes to the devil - !Copy !req
267. Find the witch; this is all her fault - !
Strike her dead -!Copy !req
268. Now I'm going to take you home,
my Hel - !Copy !req
269. The witch - ! the witch - !
There she is - ! there she is - !Copy !req
270. Where are our children,
you witch, you -?Copy !req
271. Burn the witch. -
To the stake with her!Copy !req
272. To the stake with her -!Copy !req
273. Hel - ! My Hel -!Copy !req
274. Your children... saved -!Copy !req
275. Head and hands want to join together,
but they don't have the heart to do it...Copy !req
276. Oh Mediator,
show them the way to one another...Copy !req
277. MUST BE THE HEART!Copy !req
278. F. W. Murnau Stiftung, Wiesbaden
jointly with Deutsche Kinemathek -Copy !req
279. Museum für Film und Fernsehen, BerlinCopy !req
280. in co-operation with Museo del Cine Pablo
C. Ducros Hicken, Buenos AiresCopy !req
281. Supported by:Copy !req
282. Contributors of material and guidance:Copy !req
283. Special Thanks:Copy !req
284. Reconstruction and synchronisationCopy !req
285. of the original music
by Gottfried Huppertz:Copy !req
286. Frank StrobelCopy !req
287. Instrumentation of the missing parts
of the score:Copy !req
288. Marco JovicCopy !req
289. Musical notation:Copy !req
290. Jörg PeltzerCopy !req
291. Edition on behalf of ZDF/ARTE:Copy !req
292. Europäische Filmphilharmonie -
Die Film Philharmonie GmbHCopy !req
293. Performed by the:
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester BerlinCopy !req
294. an ensemble of the
Rundfunk Orchester und Chöre GmbHCopy !req
295. Musical direction:Copy !req
296. Frank StrobelCopy !req
297. Music production:Copy !req
298. Nina Goslar, ZDF/ARTECopy !req
299. Stefan Lang,
Deutschlandradio KulturCopy !req