English-Speaking Film Club — Screening & Discussion At our English conversation film club we will watch an expressionist sci-fi dystopia: Metropolis

English-Speaking Film Club — Screening & Discussion

At our English conversation film club we will watch an expressionist sci-fi dystopia:

Metropolis

Directed by Fritz Lang
Screenplay by Thea von Harbou
Starring: Gustav Fröhlich, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel

With English subtitles

About the film:
Metropolis is a city of the future divided into two worlds. Underground lie the workers’ dwellings and the machine halls. Above them rises the upper city with offices, luxury districts, and pleasure gardens. All power belongs to the magnate Joh Fredersen.