If you don’t have any plans for tomorrow night tune in to Arte at 8.30 pm for the first release of the restored silent film “Metropolis“. 83 years after the premiere only a shortened version was circulating but then in 2008 long-lost film reels with about 30 minutes of missing sequences were rediscovered in Buenos Aires. This uncut “Metropolis” had been sent to Argentina in 1928 and had ended up in a private collector’s archive. With the help of old notes, this classic got recut and restored in terms of the original version of Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou. One of the most important works in cinematic history is to be shown in a complete uncut version at the opening of the Berlinale at Friedrichstadt Palast and Arte will broadcast live.
