Metropolis z.1

[Eddie Liberati]

Lo que pasa es que en realidad la peli cuando se estreno originalmente duraba casi 3 horas y media, acá tienen unos datos muy interesantes sobre las distintas versiones que existieron de este film sacado de IMDB:

Alternate Versions for
Metropolis (1927)

• The original premiere version (Fritz Lang's director's cut) of Metropolis ran approx. 3 1/2 hours. This version is lost.
  
  
  
• The premiere version was cut down for the official release (after bad word of mouth) in the USA to 159 minutes, while the German official release ran 153 minutes.
  
  
  
• A restored version was prepared by the Filmmuseum Munich. Restored according to the original script, this version replaces lost scenes either with stills or titles. Its running time is about 150 minutes.
  
  
  
• A new UK video version (wrongly called "Director´s cut") is 139 minutes long.
  
  
  
• A version restored by the German Democratic Republic in the eighties runs 115 minutes (still shown on German TV sometimes)
  
  
  
• The official German video version runs 93 minutes.
  
  
  
• A restored but shorter (87min) version was re-released in 1984, featuring a soundtrack produced by 'Georgio Moroder' . This version is also color tinted, supposedly according to Fritz Lang's original vision.
  
  
  
• The Hollywood Classics Collector's Edition running 115 minutes with musical score. It is recorded in the highest quality EP mode. This video was made by the Madacy Entertainment Group in 1996.
  
  
  
• The 94 minute video version released by the Killiam Collection contains a soundtrack with no music, but only electronic generated sound effects.
  
  
  
• The version released on Crown Movie Classics is the same cut as the Madacy version but features very inapropriate Hal Roach-style music for its score.
  
  
  
• In 2001 a newly restored version premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. Opposite the numerous restorations, it features the original sequencing, that had been lost over the years. With a running time of 147 minutes it gets close to the original cut (ca. 150 minutes).
  
  
  
• Of the originally 175 intertitles 45 had been rephrased and 36 completely removed and for the 1927 cut version.
  
  
  
• The Hollywood Classics Edition made by the Madacy Entertainment Group reads 'Approx 115 mins' on the box but is 118 mins long.
  
  
  
• The DVD version released by Navarre (as part of a "Triple Feature" budget release) runs 119 minutes. It uses still pictures for the opening credits and dialogue titles.
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