A restored version of the science fiction classic Metropolis has been shown to mark the 60th anniversary of the Berlinale festival. The special gala screening included an extra thirty minutes of previously lost footage from the film. The film’s restoration came about after 30 lost minutes of the original film were rediscovered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2008. The film has undergone meticulous restoration at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation in the past few years. Fritz Lang’s silent distopian classic was originally released 83 years ago.

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