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German films Sci-Fi
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Although it is now widely acknowledged as one of the greatest science-fiction films ever made, a silent masterpiece and possibly the pinnacle of German expressionism, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis has enjoyed something of a chequered history. Indeed, there is no single definitive version of the film. The original 1926 version was destroyed and the film now exists in around half a dozen various...
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Legendary Austrian cineaste Fritz Lang is probably best known today for his silent masterpiece Metropolis (1927), one of the most iconic fantasy films of all time (in spite of the fact that no complete print of the film exists). He is less well known for another fantasy film, Frau im Mond (a.k.a. Woman in the Moon), which he made two years later and which is regarded by many as the first...
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Fata Morgana is the most abstract and loosely structured of Werner Herzog’s films, a bizarre meditation on man’s place in an imperfect universe that offers a unique and profoundly moving cinematic experience. Neither documentary nor drama, it is an expressionistic visual poem that, in common with much of Herzog’s subsequent output...
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