Metropolis (Giorgio Moroder Version)

Riprodotto a colori e musicato da un grande musicista un film di alto valore e spessore cinematografico sulla repressione e alienazione operaia e la conseguente rivolta per un mondo migliore dove amore e lavoro trionfano e camminano insieme

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barbara nardacci

tutto come desideraro

Recensito in Italia il 29 giugno 2022

trovo sempre titoli che cerco! tutto sempre perfetto

Recensito in Italia il 5 febbraio 2018

ACQUISTO
Gennaio 2018; 4,99 euro spedizione Prime
DESCRIZIONE
Il film si vede bene e il sonoro (musica) è chiaro
È possibile inserire dei sottotitoli in italiano con i commenti di un critico cinematografico: importanti per capire bene il film.
Non sono invece riuscito a vedere i cartelli “parlanti” del film in italiano, che sono apparsi in tedesco ( per me incomprensibili)
Per me che sono ignorante di cinema, il film è risultato di difficile visione: l’ho visto in due sessioni; la prima volta mi sono distratto e ho interrotto.
Con la giusta compagnia e seguendo i commenti in sottotitoli in italiano, il film è godibilissimo.
GIUDIZIO
Non per tutti, raccomandato per chi ce la fa: un grande classico del cinema (europeo) da non perdere per amanti del cinema
Complessivamente: purtroppo per me non più di 4*

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Marco Bonazzi

Maestoso!

Recensito in Italia il 10 maggio 2022

Opera musicale e visiva straordinaria, bellissimo in toto, ultra consigliato!

Recensito in Italia il 6 febbraio 2014

questo film lo consiglio a tutti. è un film che ha segnato la storia del cinema (se ne parla ancora adesso) infatti tratta di molti temi recenti come la clonazione (il film è degli anni '30).

non per niente pesante, anche se muto e in B/N, perché c'è un modo di narrazione, svolgimento della trama e una profonda colonna sonora che, vi farà stare sul divano tutto il tempo senza fiatare e prendere pause.

da molti considerato il primo film di fantascienza in assoluto.

poi questa versione recente presenta spezzoni che si credevano andati perduti ma, recuperati e riuniti per farla tornare nella versione più fedele possibile della prima edizione.

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ASSOLUTAMENTE MERAVIGLIOSO

Silvia

Recensito in Italia il 21 marzo 2017

Il film, veduto su Youtube, mi entusiasmò per la profondità dei contenuti morali e sociali (l'epoca in cui fu realizzato è del resto quella dei grandi movimenti sociali e pensatori dell'epoca moderna). La storia è avvincentissima fino all'ultima scena. Restaurato in modo perfetto (che vuol dire con grandissima attenzione al mantenimento della sua integrità originale), ha ragione di esser ritenuto un capolavoro assoluto di "silent movie" e ben oltre.

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Andrea

Metropolis

Recensito in Italia il 30 giugno 2013

Questo film non può mancare nella cineteca di chiunque ami il cinema, innnanzi tutto perchè siamo di fronte a un capolavoro immortale diretto magnificamente dal maestro Fritz Lang, e poi perchè questa è la versione migliore al momento in circolazione: infatti questa uscita è la più completa in assoluto per il mercato italiano, restaurato alla perfezione in digitale con l'aggiunta delle scene ritrovate a Buenon Aires e con la colonna sonora originale composta all'epoca.
Molto bello il cofanetto in cartone con l'aggiunta di un dvd extra con un documentario sulla riedizione e sul restauro del film.
Assolutamente da avere!!!

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Non va

Recensito in Italia il 16 febbraio 2023

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Amazon Kunde

Ein Meisterwerk!

Recensito in Germania il 25 gennaio 2024

Für Liebhaber alter Filme ...
Ein sehr berühmter, berührender Stummfilm von Lang und Murnau von 1927 - entgegen der Beschreibung sogar mit deutschen Zwischentiteln.
Ich freue mich über diesen Kauf.

freddiefreejazz

fritz lang et la mégapole maudite...

Recensito in Francia il 8 febbraio 2023

Cette édition chez Potemkine ( Metropolis ) date de décembre 2022. Boîtier steelbox de toute beauté (bien vu le relief !) contenant deux Blu-ray (Le Film et les documentaires). Travail éditorial de premier plan, donc. Heureusement, j'ai pu me procurer l'objet d'occasion (et ce en excellent état) pour moins de 25 euros (quand ailleurs les prix affichés commencent à grimper à partir de 60 balles, une vraie spéculation sur les sites...). Idem pour le Nosferatu de F.W. Murnau édité au même moment. Metropolis est bien sûr un film incontournable de Fritz Lang, tout comme Citizen Kane est un film majeur d'Orson Welles. Mieux : du cinéma mondial. Jusqu'à présent, j'ai dû le voir quatre ou cinq fois. Une à deux fois tous les dix ans (1). On indiquera d'autres éditions : Metropolis chez MK2 en 2012. Mais attention aux autres éditions sans sous-titres français ( Metropolis ), Amazon France les mélangeant toutes... Voici donc à nouveau l'intégralité des bobines, après que celles-ci furent retrouvées en Argentine en 2008. Lang se moquait un peu de savoir que son film avait été amputé (sic), comme il le fit remarquer au cours d'un entretien. L’œuvre ne lui appartenait plus. De toute façon, il trouvait Metropolis bien trop long : les 2h30 initiales (ici) au lieu des 90 minutes projetées en salle aux États-Unis en 1927. La Paramount avait opéré un véritable saucissonnage (supprimant la logique du récit). Maintenant, sur le film en lui-même, que dire qui n'a déjà été dit et redit ? Que le Cœur doit être le médiateur entre la main (la force ouvrière) et le cerveau (les scientifiques, les penseurs, le patronat) ? Que c'est à la fois une Utopie et une Dystopie ? Metropolis fait en tout cas partie de ces œuvres qu'il faut avoir vu au moins une fois dans sa vie.

Metropolis est quand même un film intrigant. Et même ambigu par certains côtés. Visionnaire et prophétique ? On peut le dire ainsi puisque Fritz Lang, en discutant de l'importance de la Technique (voir à ce sujet les ouvrages de Platon, Hans Habermas, Martin Heidegger ou mieux : Jacques Ellul) entrevoit ce qui se passera au cours du XXème siècle : les camps de concentration (la scène au cours de laquelle sont jetés des milliers d'hommes et de femmes en guise de sacrifice dans la gueule en feu d'un Moloch effrayant), Tchernobyl (l'accident qui provoque une énorme explosion, puis les conséquences désastreuses pour l'environnement), le Nazisme et sa Gestapo (l'espion à la physionomie patibulaire qui surveille Freder, le personnage principal, sorte de Naïf mais aussi de Christ, sorte de Prince Mychkine, le personnage principal dans L' i d i o t de Dostoïevski...). En effet, le Fils veut prendre la place d'un ouvrier et ne pas rester dans sa Tour d'Ivoire. Cela nous rappellera le travail de Simone Weil (voir son ouvrage Réflexions sur les causes de la Liberté et de L'oppression sociale ). Lang prévoit aussi le Transhumanisme et la robotisation (les apparences de plus en plus humaines des robots). Encore quelque temps et on ne pourra distinguer l'être humain de l'être machine, lance un personnage dans le film de Lang (sic). Bien sûr, les cinéphiles ont déjà vu Blade Runner (Ridley Scott) et Le Cinquième Élément (Luc Besson) qui tout deux puisent leur inspiration dans Metropolis. On pourrait même évoquer Ex-Machina , très bon film d'Alex Garland (ce film est vraiment le plus proche du film de Lang). Les références bibliques sont très éloquentes aussi. Un peu trop peut-être. Ainsi est évoqué l'épisode de Babel.

La question du travail est également abordée... Maintenant, est-ce un vrai coup de cœur ? Le succès du film est sans doute comparable à celui de James Cameron ( Avatar projeté en salle en 2009). Je suis presque gêné de balancer ces quelques références. C'est seulement pour dire, toutefois, que Metropolis est le premier film d'anticipation, dans l'Histoire du Cinéma. Cela, vous vous en doutez bien. Ou mieux : vous le savez déjà.

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(1) Cela dit, si vous avez les éditions précédentes (post-2008), inutile de se rabattre sur celle-ci.

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Anthony Mercader

A wonderful achievement in film

Recensito in Australia il 7 novembre 2023

What a wonderful film. The picture quality is quite good, the additional footage inserted into the film is quite poor in quality but it is easily forgiven when you understand how they achieved the “lost footage” and the original state of that film.
As a huge movie fan, I could see that many of our modern day film makers have been influenced by this outstanding piece of cinema. The costuming and sets are way ahead of their time.
If you love cinema then this is an essential film to make a part of your collection.

Kindle Customer

Wow!

Recensito in Canada il 27 gennaio 2014

I've been waiting for this DVD for years. If you've seen this rendition (Moroder's) of Metropolis before than you need to get it on DVD. The modern soundtrack and colourization just breathes new life into this film classic. Love it! Remember, this is for die hard film fans only, if your looking for a good flick for a Saturday Night than move on, but if you appreciate film art, and can accept Moroder's re-sculpting of Metropolis than get this and enjoy it with some nerdy film fan friends, the post film discussion about Metropolis should be as engrossing as the film itself

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Denis Joe

Cinema as Symphony

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 9 gennaio 2011

One of the most important events of film history has been realised with the editing together of Lang's masterpiece.

It was the first time that I had seen Metropolis in 30 odd years, and seeing it today illustrates, to me, how much it reflects the confusion of modernity; making it a work that also taps into our own times.

One of the works that it brought to mind was Mahler's 3rd symphony, with its quote from Nietzsche's `Also sprach Zarathustra' (`O man! Take notice'). Like Mahler, Lang introduces us to the ethereal as well as the mundane. Even Huppert's score echoes Mahler (as much as the music of new romanticism did at the time, composers such as Zemlinsky, for example).

Enough words have been said about the style of the film, and the impact that it has had on later filmmakers ( It is suggested that Stanley Kubrick based Dr Stranlove - the character played by Peter Sellers - on Rotwang, but I wonder if he may have also had Lang in mind; when one sees the interview with Lang on this disc, the comparison is quite stunning).

Though I don't want to dwell on Lang's biography too much there has always been this image of Lang as some sort of progressive, whilst his wife (of the time), Thea von Harbou, who wrote the novel and screenplay for Metropolis, is portrayed as some Nazi-loving bitch who stayed behind when Lang `escaped' to the USA. Jonathan Rosenbaum, writing in the accompanying booklet, compounds the image by referring to Metropolis' `[naïve]' socialist notions' [p.11] and though the compromising of capitalist and workers interest fits in with the reforming socialist ideals of Social Democracy, much of the film seems to be a product of the ideology of the rising Nazi party.

In hindsight we can see the clips where the workers go to and come off their shifts as the later images of Jews being herded into concentration camps (even the dream-like image of workers being thrown into the furnace/mouth of Moloch, reinforces that). But there are other aspects of the film that makes it understandable as to why Hitler loved Metropolis and could say of Lang: "Here is a man who can give us great Nazi films!" Rotwang can be seen as the cause of all the problems of the city and although he does not appear as a caricature Jew, we do see a star (though not the Star of David, exactly) on his door, suggesting the Jewish conspiracy theory, so loved by anti-Semitics. Added to that Rotwang can easily be seen as a Rabbi Lowe figure who, using one of the Nazi's theories of the Jewish Bolsheviks, creates an evil Maria, who later stirs up trouble amongst the workers (and it is wondered if Lang and von Harbou had the murdered revolutionary, Rosa Luxemburg, as the model for the `evil' Maria).

But if anything, it is the elitist fear of `the mob' that dominates the second half of the film. The workers are portrayed as mindless `idiots' for allowing themselves to be swayed by the `evil' Maria, and, as if to reinforce the contempt for `the mob' taking revolutionary action the music during the scenes of the workers destroying the machines is a twisted `La Marseillaise'.

The story itself is, to put it mildly, garbage, but the ending (seen as being one of the worst conclusions to a film) seems to me to be the only one available. It works as a compromise between the totalitarian ideals of Nietzsche inspired Nazism and a liberal democracy where `we are all in this together'.

To reject Lang's German films on the basis that they were applauded by Hitler and Goebbels and, to some extent, acted as Nazi propaganda, would be wrong. Art calls on whatever is available at the time and this was the climate of Germany during the period when Lang was making this film.

I think that this film (though I prefer `M') is one of the greatest films ever. It matters little about the politics (except for analytical purposes)for an appreciation of the work as a whole. Like Wagner's Ring Cycle, Metropolis did not bring about the rise of the Nazis, the Nazis exploited those things that, ideologically, the could relate to in those works.

Metropolis not only reflects the confusion of Modernity (a confusion much abound these days as well) it portrayed that confusion in the most far-seeing manner that the time allowed.

It became the benchmark for other films (mainly, but not solely, science fiction _ there is a scene where the water pours through a crack in the ground, which made me think of the bleeding walls in Kubrick's `The Shining') and even the recently found scenes, that are scratched and of poor quality, still seem amazing.

But for me, I find that the film is the height of modern aesthetics. Whilst life for the workers is brutal, the architecture of the city, that dominates the film, is simply beautiful.

This film has suffered the worst butchering of any work of art I can think of. Not only having so much cut out from it but also having to be put through the indignity at the hands of Mororder in 1984. It is indeed a great pleasure that we have been given this version today. The film world and audience should be forever grateful to those that found and worked on this restoration and then released it.

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