---
title: 'Metropolis (1927)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Fritz Lang'
released: '1927-01-10'
runtime_minutes: 153
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Science Fiction'
countries:
  - 'Weimar Republic'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/metropolis-1927'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Metropolis (1927)

1927 · 153 min · Drama, Science Fiction · Weimar Republic


## Synopsis

Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang, based on von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name. It stars Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Brigitte Helm. Erich Pommer produced it in the Babelsberg Studio for Universum Film A.G. (UFA). Metropolis is regarded as a pioneering science-fiction film, being among the first feature-length ones of that genre. Filming took place over 17 months in 1925–1926 at a cost of more than five million Reichsmarks, or the equivalent of about €21 million.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Fritz Lang](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-lang)
- **Screenplay:** [Fritz Lang](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-lang), [Thea von Harbou](https://cinepixo.com/people/thea-von-harbou)
- **Editor:** [Fritz Lang](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-lang)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Gottfried Huppertz](https://cinepixo.com/people/gottfried-huppertz)
- **Producer:** [Erich Pommer](https://cinepixo.com/people/erich-pommer)
- **Director of Photography:** [Karl Freund](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-freund), [Günther Rittau](https://cinepixo.com/people/gunther-rittau), [Walter Ruttmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-ruttmann)

## Cast

- [Rolf von Goth](https://cinepixo.com/people/rolf-von-goth) as Sohn der Ewigen Gärten
- [Margarete Lanner](https://cinepixo.com/people/margarete-lanner) as Dame im Auto / Frau der ewigen Gärten
- [Heinrich Gotho](https://cinepixo.com/people/heinrich-gotho) as Zeremonienmeister
- [Helen von Münchhofen](https://cinepixo.com/people/helen-von-munchhofen) as Frau der ewigen Gärten
- [Ilse Stanley](https://cinepixo.com/people/ilse-stanley)
- [Grete Berger](https://cinepixo.com/people/grete-berger) as Arbeiterin
- [Rudolf Klein-Rogge](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolf-klein-rogge) as C. A. Rotwang
- [Alfred Abel](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-abel) as Joh Fredersen
- [Rose Liechtenstein](https://cinepixo.com/people/rose-liechtenstein) as Arbeiterin
- [Gustav Fröhlich](https://cinepixo.com/people/gustav-frohlich) as Freder Fredersen
- [Georg John](https://cinepixo.com/people/georg-john) as Arbeiter
- [Fritz Alberti](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-alberti) as Schöpferischer Mensch
- [Theodor Loos](https://cinepixo.com/people/theodor-loos) as Josaphat
- [Max Dietze](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-dietze) as Arbeiter
- [Erwin Biswanger](https://cinepixo.com/people/erwin-biswanger) as Georgy, der Arbeiter Nr. 11811

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