Tuesday 20 September, 2016 - Tuesday 20 September, 2016

Fritz Lang’s Metropolis

Masham Town Hall, Little Market Place, Masham
19:30

With live original musical accompaniment by pianist Dymtro Morykit.
Tickets £10.00/£8.00 concessions. Available from: Mashamshire Community Office, 7 Little Market Place 01765 680200
“A creative and performing tour de force” – Glasgow Herald
METROPOLIS LIVE combines Fritz Lang’s all-time movie masterpiece with Dmytro Morykit’s seminal new piano score performed live in accompaniment; an electrifying work and performance which brings a fabulous emotional charge to this iconic film.
The film was directed in 1927 by Fritz Lang with the script was written by his wife Thea von Harbou. In a futuristic city sharply divided between the workers and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a saviour to mediate their differences.
There are several reconstructions of the film and Metropolis Live shows the 2 hour version. It is considered a masterpiece and a pioneering work of science fiction, and was the first film to be inscribed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register.
“One of the landmarks of world cinema, among the last of the silent classics … It should be in everyone’s film library” – Philip French, The Observer