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Spione (Spies) is a silent film classic by Fritz Lang, based on a story written by Thea Von Harbou.
The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government’s secret service (IMDb.com).
In one review, further down the IMDb page, the movie is aptly described as the granddaddy of all spy films, The movie’s runtime clocks in a 2-1/2 hours.
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Source: British program for the premiere of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis in 1927.
Don’t forget to set your clocks ahead an hour tonight.
Metropolis, 1926
For the film METROPOLIS, whose theme and design forge new paths, I was confronted with challenges of a totally new kind. It wasn’t enough to design the fashion of tomorrow already slumbering in today’s mind or, for that matter, slumbering in the day after tomorrow, certain to take shape in the minds of great fashion designers the next day. I had to create fashions of the year 2000 – a time that we think of as existing at a fantastic distance, and which, for that reason,can only take shape in one’s fantasy – Aenne Willkomm
Here’s a little wallpaper composite I threw together a few years ago with various scenes from the Fritz Land sci-fi classic Metropolis
Various imagery and sketches showing how Fritz Lang’s Metropolis came into being.
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