“But a private collector carried an original version to Argentina in 1928, where it has stayed, Felix-Didier said. ”
| Lost scenes from the sci-fi classic “Metropolis,” recently discovered in the archives of a Buenos Aires museum, were shown to journalists for the first time in decades on Thursday.\n |
| A long-lost original cut of the 1927 silent film sat for 80 years in a private collection and then in the Museum of Cinema in Buenos Aires, where it was discovered in April with scratched images that hadn\’t been seen before.\n |
| Museum director Paula Felix-Didier said theirs is the only copy of German director Fritz Lang\’s complete film.\n |
| “This is the version Fritz Lang intended,” said Martin Koerber, a curator at the Deutsche Kinemathek film museum in Berlin, Germany.\n |
| “Metropolis,” written by Lang and his actress wife Thea von Harbou, depicts a 21st century world divided between a class of underworld workers and the “thinkers” above who control them.\n |
| distributors cut Lang\’s three-and-a-half-hour masterpiece into the shorter version since viewed by millions worldwide. |
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