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[docwebster]

Argentines find lost 'Metropolis' scenes

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Lost scenes from the sci-fi classic "Metropolis," recently discovered in the archives of a Buenos Aires museum, were shown to journalists for the first time in decades on Thursday.

A long-lost original cut of the 1927 silent film sat for 80 years in a private collection and then in the Museum of Cinema in Buenos Aires, where it was discovered in April with scratched images that hadn't been seen before.

Museum director Paula Felix-Didier said theirs is the only copy of German director Fritz Lang's complete film.

"This is the version Fritz Lang intended," said Martin Koerber, a curator at the Deutsche Kinemathek film museum in Berlin, Germany.

Comments

[bludfeast.livejournal.com]

God... they HAVE to restore and release this! There is no argument that will sway me on this point!

[midnightmadness.livejournal.com]

Awesome - hope this gets a release. Yes, I'll buy/see it again!

[arivalscientist.livejournal.com]

The big irony on this is that KINO just finished a restoration and digital copy of the previously "long" version of "Metropolis" and was going to put it out later this year. They are currently looking at the newly found print and will probably intigrate it into their cut. Now only if that damned "mysterious private collector" (cough,cough---Nazi war criminal on the lam in South America---cough,cough) had the full cuts of "Nosferatu" or "Greed".........