Thea von Harbou

Metropolis ( Hardcover ) By Thea von Harbou Buy new : $24.95 12 used and new from $22.78 Customer Rating: First tagged by bernie "xyzzy" Related tags: restoration , german cinema , metropolis , classic movie , silent film , fritz lang , science fiction , thea von harbou Special Price at Amazon Click HereRead Full Story

Thea von Harbou  (1888 - 1954) had her first novel published in 1905. From 1906 until 1914, Harbou acts on the stages of Dusseldorf, Weimar, Chemnitz and Aachen, and five years later Harbou's career as a screen-writer gets under way. During the preparations for the filming of her novel Das Indische Grabmal she met Fritz Lang, and would provide the scripts for all of his movies between 1920 and 1933. Harbou also wrote scripts for movies by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Carl Theador Dreyer and...Read Full Story

Directed by Fritz Lang Produced by Erich Pommer Written by Thea von Harbou Fritz Lang (uncredited) Starring Alfred Abel Brigitte Helm Gustav Fr?hlich Rudolf Klein-Rogge Music by Gottfried Huppertz (original version) Cinematography Karl Freund Günther Rittau Walter Ruttmann Distributed by UFA Release date(s) 10 January 1927 (1927-01-10) Running time 153 minutes/24 frame/s Country Germany Language Silent film German intertitles Budget 5,100,000 Reichsmark Metropolis-155...Read Full Story

alicia753 V.I.P. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rudolf Klein-Rogge ( November 24 , 1888 – April 30 , 1955 ) was a German stage and film actor of the 1920s and 30s. He is best known for his roles as the mad scientist C. A. Rotwang in Fritz Lang 's film Metropolis , and as the title character in Lang's Dr. Mabuse series. He was born as Friederich Rudolf Klein-Rogge in Cologne, Germany . His father was a high-ranking military officer. After graduating...Read Full Story

The scientist Rotwang at his experimentation table in Fritz Lang's Metropolis I first saw Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1926) sometime in the Sixties in a miserable 16-millimeter print under 90 minutes in length. Drastically cut not long after its premiere engagement in Germany, the film had been slashed ever further in subsequent editions. One of the most influential films ever made—the font of cinematic dystopias, a source of imagery reflected in films from The Bride of Frankenstein to Blade...Read Full Story