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Critics say restored version of 1927 classic throws light on 'baffling' movie Kate Connolly in Berlin Friday July 4, 2008 The Guardian Still from the Fritz Lang film, Metropolis Photograph: PR The cinematic world is celebrating the rediscovery of missing scenes from German director Fritz Lang's legendary silent film Metropolis, which turned up in the archive of a Buenos Aires museum after being thought lost for 80 years. Key scenes cut from the science fiction picture produced on the outskirts of Berlin, either because they were considered too brutal, or for length reasons, will be available for the first time since May 1927, when the original version was last shown in Berlin, where it flopped. Rainer Rother, the head of Berlin's film museum, Deutsche Kinemathek, called the find a "sensational discovery", saying one of the... [read full story]
