Metropolis : ein filmisches laboratorium der modernen Architektur = a cinematic laboratory for modern architecture / herausgegeben von = edited by Wolfgang Jacobsen, Werner Sudendorf / mit Beiträgen von = with contributions by Martin Koerber, Yvonne Rehhahn

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"What links film and architecture? Above all it is Metropolis, the film that Fritz Lang made in the Babelsberg studios in 1925/26. Its extravagance created enormous financial difficulties for Ufa, the biggest German film concern, but it had a brilliant premiere in Berlin in January 1927, went on to enjoy unparalleled success world-wide - and then came to symbolize (film) architectural design for the future. Metropolis, internationally renowned as a major piece of German film culture, represents film art in the Weimar Republic in an artistically unique and yet unusually popular way, but it also contains one of the first fully-formulated 20th-century city fantasies. Fritz Lang, stimulated by a journey to New York, had his architect Erich Kettelhut build a city of the future in the Babelsberg Studios outside Berlin, which, as a vision, went far beyond the real skyscraper silhouette.Luis Bunuel wrote the following about Metropolis as early as 1927: "Henceforth and for ever more the scenic designer has been replaced by the architect. The cinema will serve as a time interpreter of the architect's boldest dreams."The Tower of Babel from Metropolis has been a piece of urban fantasy that has inspired architects of every colour right down to the present day. American urban visions in films of the 80s and 90s, like for instance the cult film Blade Runner, would be inconceivable without Lang's Metro-polis. Now as then the Metropolis designs are considered to be highly-developed examples of a Modemist laboratory for film and architecture." -- Amazon

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