Saturday
Aug022008
Metropolis
Saturday 2 August, 2008
'In honour of the recent rediscovery of the full version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis, and inspired by this great series of illustrations (of which more below), here's a look at some of the covers which have graced Thea von Harbou's original novel.
Von Harbou was, for a time, Fritz Lang's wife: they wrote the scripts for M and Metropolis together. The marriage seems to have fallen apart, understandably enough, when Von Harbou joined the Nazis. Lang, an ardent anti-Nazi, seems to have fled Germany after his films began to be banned.'
Von Harbou was, for a time, Fritz Lang's wife: they wrote the scripts for M and Metropolis together. The marriage seems to have fallen apart, understandably enough, when Von Harbou joined the Nazis. Lang, an ardent anti-Nazi, seems to have fled Germany after his films began to be banned.'
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