Metropolis (1927 film) Metropolis (1927 film) Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction drama film directed by Fritz Lang. Written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang, it stars Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge and Brigitte Helm. Erich Pommer produced it in the Babelsberg Studios for Universum Film A.G. (Ufa). The silent film is regarded as a pioneering science-fiction movie, being among the first feature-length movies of that genre. Filming took place over 17 months in 1925–26 at a cost of over five million Reichsmarks. Made in Germany during the Weimar Period, "Metropolis" is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and
The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959 film) The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959 film) The Tiger of Eschnapur, or in original German, "Der Tiger von Eschnapur", is a 1959 West German-French-Italian adventure film directed by Fritz Lang. It is the first of two films comprising what has come to be known as "Fritz Lang's Indian Epic"; the other is "The Indian Tomb" "(Das Indische Grabmal"). Fritz Lang returned to Germany to direct these films, which together tell the story of a German architect, the Indian maharaja for whom he is supposed to build schools and hospitals, and the Eurasian dancer who comes between them. Lang's Indian epic is