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Programme 03 · The Silent Room
Metropolis
Directed by Fritz Lang
In a city split between the gardens above and the machines below, a worker's son falls for the woman who is trying to stop the clock. Then the machine learns her face.
Screening note
The template for nearly every future city on screen. Its verticality is still astonishing: the eye keeps falling.
Sci-FiSilent
“The future, built one floor above a nightmare.”
Public-domain cinema. This prototype does not host or stream the film. A production build would resolve playback through a licensed, region-aware provider.
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