{"product_id":"metropolis-fritz-lang-1927-paramount-film","title":"Metropolis 1927 | Fritz Lang Paramount Film Poster","description":"\u003cp\u003eA woman's face fills the left third of the composition: wide-eyed, open-mouthed, short dark hair lit against a deep purple ground. To her right, Fritz Lang's imagined city of the year 2026 rises in a densely illustrated Art Deco skyline of coloured towers, archways, and aerial walkways. A lone worker in orange drives a machine wheel at the foot of that city while crowds surge in the foreground. Across the top, in hand-drawn green capitals: METROPOLIS. Down the centre, three stacks of alliterative adjectives in white italic type, FANTASTIC \/ FUTURISTIC \/ FATALISTIC, EROTIC \/ EXOTIC \/ ERRATIC, IMAGINARY \/ IMPRESSIVE \/ IMPOSSIBLE, set the register of a promotional campaign that knew it was selling something audiences had never encountered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the English-language Paramount Pictures release poster for Fritz Lang's 1927 UFA production. Paramount, as part of its Parufamet distribution arrangement with UFA, commissioned playwright Channing Pollock to re-edit the film for American release, shortening Lang's original from 153 minutes and reworking the intertitles. The poster's diagonal red credit banner names both Lang and Pollock, making it a specific document of that international distribution moment. The film had opened in Berlin in January 1927; the Paramount version circulated through American cinemas later that year and into 1928.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMetropolis occupies an established position in the history of science-fiction cinema: among the first feature-length films of the genre, a work whose set design, by Otto Hunte, Erich Kettelhut, and Karl Vollbrecht, drew on Art Deco architecture, German Expressionism, and the constructivist visual language of Weimar Germany. The poster's illustrated cityscape reflects all of that. Brigitte Helm, who played both Maria and the Machine-Person in the film, is the face on the left: her expression here is among the most reproduced in early cinema promotion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReproduced using the giclée process on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art Paper with pigment-based archival inks. A natural choice for collectors of early cinema history, Weimar-era graphic culture, or the Art Deco period in screen design.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Poster Archives","offers":[{"title":"A4","offer_id":63888891969913,"sku":"VPA-11404-A4","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3","offer_id":63888892002681,"sku":"VPA-11404-A3","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2","offer_id":63888892035449,"sku":"VPA-11404-A2","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70cm","offer_id":63888892068217,"sku":"VPA-11404-50x70cm","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1","offer_id":63888892100985,"sku":"VPA-11404-A1","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100cm","offer_id":63888892133753,"sku":"VPA-11404-70x100cm","price":59.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0","offer_id":63888892166521,"sku":"VPA-11404-A0","price":69.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/1139\/4937\/files\/Cinema-Metropolis-FritzLang-ParamountRelease-1927_2fd3d7de-d37e-4e20-8c22-37d00927c0e3.jpg?v=1783239148","url":"https:\/\/vintageposterarchives.com\/products\/metropolis-fritz-lang-1927-paramount-film","provider":"Vintage Poster Archives","version":"1.0","type":"link"}