Metropolis (1927): The Most Expensive Sci-Fi Epic They Tried to Erase

A studio gambled everything on one film and nearly destroyed itself making it. Then the company that distributed it took a pair of scissors to the finished masterpiece and cut away a quarter of it forever. The director who made it refused to watch what they had done. For eighty years, the version most people saw was not the film Fritz Lang actually made. The complete cut sat inside a rusted film canister in a museum in Buenos Aires, forgotten, until a divorce accidentally put the right person in charge of finding it. In this video we uncover 10 hidden truths about Metropolis 1927 — the most expensive film of the silent era and the most important science fiction movie ever made. The budget that nearly bankrupted UFA. The wife who wrote the original story and joined the Nazi party as Lang fled the country. The actress whose robot costume nearly killed her on set. And the eighty-year journey to bring the real film back from the dead. SUBSCRIBE to The Classic Reels for more hidden histories every week. Every classic film has secrets. We find them. #Metropolis1927 #FritzLang #SilentFilm #ScienceFictionHistory #ClassicCinema #FilmHistory #HiddenTruths #TheClassicReels #PublicDomain #GermanExpressionism #BrigitteHelm #FilmRestoration #ClassicFilm #SciFiHistory #lostfilm