METROPOLIS, released on this day
On this day--10 Jan.--in 1927, Fritz Lang's magnificent sci-fi fantasy METROPOLIS first hit the screen in Germany.
"This is the kind of movie the phrase 'visionary masterpiece' was coined to describe, a gloriously weird epic of the future as seen from the late Weimar era wherein the working class robotically toils away on machines beneath the earth while the well-off live in a shining, paradisiacal city above, rich kids develop social conscience while experiencing visions of devils and mad scientists create androids in the form of humans to beguile and confound men."
https://cinemarchaeologist.blogspot.com/2018/01/metropolisiversary.html