The Local wrote:Lost scenes from German-Austrian director Fritz Lang's legendary silent film "Metropolis" have been discovered in Argentina, German weekly newspaper Die Zeit reported on Wednesday.
Paula Félix-Didier, head of film museum Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires, discovered an uncut version of the 1927 science fiction film when she looked into reports that a tape in the archive was unusually long. She travelled to Berlin with a copy of the film and met with experts who say they are certain it is the missing original-length version of Lang's masterpiece that reveals key plot scenes and an expansion of minor roles, Die Zeit said ahead of the publication of its Thursday edition.
"The film's original rhythm will be re-established," Martin Koerber, the man responsible for the current restoration of the film, told the paper.
Head of Berlin film museum Deutsche Kinemathek told the paper it was a "sensational discovery."
In 1927, Fritz Lang presented the film in Berlin after producing it in the city's Babelsberg Studios. At that time it was the most expensive film ever produced in Germany, but it was not well received by its German audience. A radically shorter version was subsequently edited in the US, after which historians believed the original version to have been lost.
According to Die Zeit's reconstruction of events, Buenos Aires film distributor Adolfo Z. Wilson brought a copy of the original version to Argentina in 1928. Film critic Peña Rodríguez later attained the film, which he sold in the 1960's to Argentina's national art fund. In 1992 copy then went to the Museo del Cine - where discoverer Félix-Didier took leadership this January.
This is easily the biggest movie news of the year. The full version of this movie has been a holy grail for film buffs for years, and now it's been found.
Anybody who has seen the existing cuts of this movie can easily tell that the movie feels disjointed and that Paramount had originally cut out a lot of extremely important scenes from the film.
Damn but this is fantastic! Metropolis has long been on my top-ten list and I made sure to attend the theatre screening of the latest "restored" version distributed by Kino International, just as I did for the earlier Georgio Moroder version. I can't wait for this to come out, after so many years.
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Oh man, once someone starts copying and distributing this, it is shooting right to the top of my 'must get' list of movies. I always loved Metropolis.
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