If you have never seen the Fritz Lang classic film, Metropolis, I would normally tell you that you had to see it immediately. It is that important and influential. But now it looks like you might be okay waiting a little longer.
Seems that a huge amount of footage from the film, lost for 80 years, has been discovered in Buenos Aries. The original film was 210 minutes long (that’s Lord of the Rings length, kids), but it was only screened at that length for a short while in Germany. For international distribution, it was cut considerably, and the longest length it has been seen since is about 118 minutes. That’s a LOT of footage that no one has seen for 80 years!
Apparently many scenes are much more dramatic and the pace and arc of the story are quite different. I should hope so with almost 100 minutes more footage!
Read more from the German magazine ZietOnline, that got the original story. (Don’t worry, it’s in English)
