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Metropolis (RECONSTRUCTED & RESTORED) (BLU-RAY) [1927]

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With its dizzying depiction of a futuristic cityscape and alluring female robot, Metropolis is among the most famous of all German films and the mother of sci-fi cinema (an influence on Blade Runner and Star Wars, among countless other films). Directed by the legendary Fritz Lang (M, Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse,The Big Heat, etc.), its jaw-dropping production values, iconic imagery, and modernist grandeur it was described by Luis Buñuel as 'a captivating symphony of movement' remain as powerful as ever.

Drawing on and defining classic sci-fi themes, Metropolis depicts a dystopian future in which society is thoroughly divided in two: while anonymous workers conduct their endless drudgery below ground their rulers enjoy a decadent life of leisure and luxury. When Freder (Gustav Fröhlich) ventures into the depths in search of the beautiful Maria (Brigitte Helm in her debut role), plans of rebellion are revealed and a Maria-replica robot is programmed by mad inventor Rotwang (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) and master of Metropolis Joh Fredersen (Alfred Abel) to incite the workers into a self-destructive riot.

A'Holy Grail' among film finds, Metropolis is presented here in a newly reconstructed and restored version, as lavish and spectacular as ever thanks to the painstaking archival work of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung and the discovery of 25 minutes of footage previously thought lost to the world. Lang's enduring epic can finally be seen for the first time in 83 years as the director originally intended, and as seen by German cinema-goers in 1927.

SPECIAL FEATURES:
150-minute reconstructed and restored 2010 version (including 25 minutes of footage previously thought lost to the world)
- Pristine new HD transfer (1080p on Blu-ray)
- New 2010 symphony orchestra studio recording of the original 1927 Gottfried Huppertz score in 5.1
- Newly translated optional English subtitles as well as the original German intertitles
- Full-length audio commentary by David Kalat and Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Die Reise nach Metropolis (2010, 53 minutes), a documentary about the film
- 2010 re-release trailer

Product details

  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 4:3 - 1.37:1
  • Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English, German
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.5 x 1.5 x 17.2 cm; 136 g
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ EKA70001
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Fritz Lang
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray, Subtitled
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 30 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ 22 Nov. 2010
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Unqualified (DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Eureka Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0041SMF50
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Best Sellers Rank: 13,643 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)
  • Customer reviews:
    4.8 out of 5 stars (1,449)

Customer reviews

4.8 out of 5 stars
1,449 global ratings

Customers say

Customers find this Blu-ray to be a classic film that has been well restored, with one customer noting it's the most complete version available. They appreciate the exceptional extras, stunning visuals, and interesting booklet that comes with it. The visual quality receives mixed feedback, with one customer describing it as visually stunning while another mentions issues with dark blurry images.
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45 customers mention quality, 43 positive, 2 negative
Customers praise the quality of this blu-ray, describing it as a classic film and fantastic release, with one customer noting it surpasses the old DVD version.
Fantastic restoration of this classic film. I'm delighted that the package arrived so quickly.Read more
AMAZING FILM, AMAZING SERVICERead more
A great film and this edition has lots of extrasRead more
...cut - with loads of recovered footage -the Blu-ray itself is a masterpiece made for your collection - the outer sleeve is a beauty and the booklet...Read more
21 customers mention restoration quality, 19 positive, 2 negative
Customers praise the restoration quality of the Blu-ray, describing it as an incredible reconstruction, with one customer noting the inclusion of loads of recovered footage.
...Amazing restoration.Read more
Fantastic restoration of this classic film. I'm delighted that the package arrived so quickly.Read more
ok but a bit long for my liking , well restoredRead more
Great item. Bought for OU studies. Lots of features and brilliantly restored.Read more
9 customers mention bluray quality, 9 positive, 0 negative
Customers praise the Blu-ray quality, with one customer noting it's the most complete version of this masterpiece, while another mentions it's a fully restored 2010 edition.
...This looks to be a great edition too, with a documentary and 56 page book all in a limited edition steelbook....If you are a lover of cinema, this...Read more
...I believe this to be the best quality and most complete version now available.Read more
Excellent edition!Read more
...This edition of Metropolis contains the (almost) fully restored version from 2010 and the often derided 1984 version presented by Giorgio Moroder....Read more
9 customers mention engrossedness, 8 positive, 1 negative
Customers find the movie engrossing, with one describing it as truly mesmerizing.
...For cinephiles and moviegoers of today it is an exciting film that is personally one of my favourite Sci-Fi movies, and movies in general.Read more
...are not as goo quality as the rest of the film, but they make it more interesting and easier to follow the story....Read more
...It was thrilling, it was amazing and it was a little disappointing....Read more
...and in discovered in different aspect ratios - however - the film is so compelling that this does not detract from the experience....Read more
9 customers mention extras, 9 positive, 0 negative
Customers appreciate the extras on this Blu-ray, praising the excellent set of special features and extraordinary set pieces.
Great Edition, Exceptional Extras. Really a good edition for a collector and movie lover....Read more
...I haven't watched the extras yet, but there are lots and lots of extras to watch....Read more
Fantastic transfer of the film with a nice booklet and comprehensive extras.Read more
...Full of impressive sets, German expressionism and a story crying for utopia, Lang's efforts alongside the production cast & crew have not went...Read more
8 customers mention looks, 6 positive, 2 negative
Customers find the movie visually stunning, with one mentioning that the outer sleeve is beautiful.
Just received. Wow A Stunning steelbook. truly beautiful to the eye, number 154 of 4000Read more
...The film looks and sounds terrific in Blu Ray....Read more
...th at there is a total lack of BLACK sides to the 4:3 image, it looks totally aweful and spoils the whole viewing experience....Read more
...How the producers managed to create such beautiful imagery is astounding and for something made in 1927, I was stunned at how on earth they created...Read more
7 customers mention booklet content, 7 positive, 0 negative
Customers like the booklet that comes with the movie, with one mentioning it's a 56-page book.
Fantastic transfer of the film with a nice booklet and comprehensive extras.Read more
...the fully restored film, excellent set of special features, and accompanying booklet.Read more
...Give it a watch and see for yourself. Also comes with a nice booklet.Read more
The product was great and comes with an interesting booklet which outlines the films (missing scenes) discovery and restoration....Read more
11 customers mention visual quality, 6 positive, 5 negative
Customers have mixed opinions about the visual quality of the movie, with some finding it visually stunning and praising the picture and sound, while others report issues with dark blurry images.
...Visually stunning and innovative it is still relavant almost 100 years after it was made.Read more
...The film looks and sounds terrific in Blu Ray. The visual quality of the films varries as the recently uncovered missing sections of the film were...Read more
...us by the excellent Masters of Cinema Series #8, which boasted great picture quality and the most complete and authentic version ever....Read more
Very good quality just some images will appear with dark blurry but nothing major problem other than that it’s a high quality video....Read more
Blu-ray Metropolis [Reconstructed & Restored] + Book!
5 out of 5 stars
Blu-ray Metropolis [Reconstructed & Restored] + Book!
This is the ultimate version to get for the lovers of this movie. Apart from being the ultimate cut - with loads of recovered footage -the Blu-ray itself is a masterpiece made for your collection - the outer sleeve is a beauty and the booklet is such a wonderful touch. (check the images attached) I would sincerely recommend this to those that already own a different copy.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 June 2015
    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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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 January 2014
    I really recommend this as it is a great deal, and brilliant version of the film. The casing is nice, and the 50 page booklet has some nice information in it for those who are interested in the film. The new audio, and restoration looks and sounds fantastic.

    Thoughts on film: When watching Lang's Masterpiece, you are witnessing an audacious, ambitious and incredible feat of filmmaking, with incredible collaboration and passion for the art. Full of impressive sets, German expressionism and a story crying for utopia, Lang's efforts alongside the production cast & crew have not went unappreciated. For cinephiles and moviegoers of today it is an exciting film that is personally one of my favourite Sci-Fi movies, and movies in general.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 February 2022
    The one star reviews for this are priceless. One person that couldn’t grasp the fact that, back in the day, movies were silent🤣. This film is so far ahead of its time. It’s a timeless tale of love, corruption, war and peace. Yes the found footage looks bad. The reason it looks so bad is because it was found in a ruined condition. So glad it’s in there, as this makes it the complete film as it was intended to be. So thankful I have lived to see this version.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 April 2020
    A Rare and precious find, at least for old film fans like me. Ever since I saw Metropolis when I was a young lad, many years ago I knew it was an important film and wanted to know all about it. Principally because the released version seemed to jump around between key scenes I knew something was missing, I had no idea it was about half of the finished film. When I saw the Morodor version I realised some of the missing bits had been restored and the new sound track was interesting, then I learnt about the Argentina find and knew I had to see the finished masterwork, It has taken me over 60 years from first seeing it to owning the complete film, playing it on my BlueRay and seeing it on a 56 inch UHD screen was awesome even if my grandson thought I was nuts, he liked the robot though.
    15 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 December 2010
    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!!
    6 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 September 2023
    Although when released this was not a major hit, it has become one of the most influential movies of all time. Visually stunning and innovative it is still relavant almost 100 years after it was made.
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  • Shawn Duenas
    5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the price of admission.
    Reviewed in the United States on 21 December 2015
    Special Features: 15 minute documentary from 1984 about the production of the "Giorgio Moroder Presents" edition of Metropolis.

    This version is proof of how music can make or break a movie. In this case, it made it. I started to watch the black and white version with "classic" orchestral music over a decade ago, but fell asleep and gave up. But once starting on Giorgio's rendition, I couldn't stop. Not only is the music fun eighties, it's also emotional, suspenseful, and epic when it needs to be. It accentuated the story elements and moved it along when you weren't sure how the scene was supposed to make you feel or what it was trying to say.

    Thanks to Giorgio's finding all of the "missing" footage IN COLOR and colorizing special scenes the film was also worth watching. (The color film was TINTED film stock based on the scene or location. COLORIZING means making certain elements in frame a different color than the tint of the rest of the image).

    Also, C3PO was definitely modeled after the robot in this movie.

    As for the story and story telling prowess of the filmmakers: excellent. It's amazing how in 1926 the cinematic language was nailed down and story telling of images and "title cards" was also perfected. The story is universal and shockingly enlightening considering it was made between WWI and the NAZI's rise to power (copyright 1926). After Titanic sank (1914), after D W Griffith's Birth of a Nation (1915). It spoke of a struggle between the ultra wealthy (brains) and the ultra poor working class (the simple minded). It's worth the price tag of admission. Especially when viewed in full Blu-Ray quality.
  • Choren
    5.0 out of 5 stars Maravillosa!!
    Reviewed in Mexico on 14 December 2018
    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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  • Christopher
    5.0 out of 5 stars Completely beautiful
    Reviewed in Canada on 16 May 2021
    This movie has just elevated to a classic movie. With the added 25 min it makes it a cohesive story, that’s easier to follow and understand.
    And for a movie from 1927, it has quite the special feature, documentary on the journey of this film, with behind the scenes pictures and some video. Definitely recommend!!!
  • Opinión
    5.0 out of 5 stars Es patrimonio de la humanidad .Una maravilla
    Reviewed in Spain on 11 June 2018
    Es una maravilla de película, con razón es patrimonio de la humanidad. Una obra maestra. Tiene 3 discos : 2con la película:1 DVD.1Blu-ray y el tercero de Extras. El precio casi un regalo. Y es una película que es necesaria tener en la filmoteca no tiene tiempo su mensaje. un 10!!!
  • Rheinskalde
    5.0 out of 5 stars Sehr gute Version - ein Filmklassiker in verschiedenen Varianten
    Reviewed in Germany on 3 October 2017
    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.