Fritz Lang: METROPOLIS
SNG Maribor
Maribor
Slovenia
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SNG MARIBOR - Velika dvorana
A digitally restored copy of Fritz Lang's silent film classic Metropolis, one of the greatest masterpieces in film history, will be shown within the European Capital of Culture framework. The copy includes recently discovered parts, which had been lost for decades. A timeless dystopian tale examining the search for humanity and the rising of downtrodden people seems no less revolutionary and magnificent nowadays than it at the time of its release in 1927. Fritz Lang spent some time in Ljutomer during World War I, where he was recuperating from an injury at the house of Karl Grossman, a pioneering Slovene filmmaker who made the first Slovenian film record. The film will be accompanied by a 60-member symphony orchestra to be conducted by Robert Israel – one of the greatest experts in the field of silent film accompaniment – which will perform the original movie score by Gottfried Gupertz.
