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Aug 16, 2024 · “Metropolis,” released in 1927, is a groundbreaking German expressionist science-fiction silent film, directed by Fritz Lang and co-written with Thea von Harbou, based on her 1925 novel of the same name.
May 23, 2024 · Based on a book by screenwriter and novelist Thea von Harbou, the wife of renowned director Fritz Lang, Metropolis would have a futuristic setting with universal themes.
May 29, 2024 · "Metropolis" by Thea von Harbou is a science fiction novel written in the late 1920s. The narrative is set in a futuristic urban landscape in the year 2026 A.D., exploring profound themes of class struggle, technology, and humanity's relationship with machinery.
Jan 4, 2024 · Die Nibelungen. Director: Fritz Lang. Die Nibelungen (1924) The ‘monumental film’ was a speciality of giant German studio Ufa, and husband-and-wife team Fritz Lang and Thea Von Harbou were the best at super-sizing cinema in the mid-1920s.
Mar 25, 2024 · Similarly, Lang and his wife, screenwriter Thea von Harbou, felt the fantastic Nibelungen saga, which had been popularised by Wagner’s operatic adaptation in the 19th century, would resonate...
Aug 8, 2024 · Thea Gabriele von Harbou was a prolific German author and screenwriter, best known today for writing the screenplay of the silent film epic Metropolis (1927). She published over forty books, including novels, children’s books, and collections of short stories, essays, poems, and novellas.
Mar 7, 2024 · Thea von Harbou’s involvement with the Nazis in Germany was among the reasons given for the break-up of the marriage. Ordered by the Nazi regime to make films that would reflect its...
Jul 1, 2024 · Novelist who became a pivotal contributor to the German Expressionist movement during the 1920s, collaborating with Murnau, May, Dreyer and, from 1920, Fritz Lang. Von Harbou married Lang in 1924 but the two were later divorced, largely due to her joining the Nazi Party in the early 30s.
Nov 29, 2023 · Metropolis was published in 1926 by Thea von Harbou. It was translated from German in 1927 by The Readers Library.
Jun 4, 2024 · Thea von Harbou's Metropolis is one science fiction classic everyone should read. Her visionary novel has been compared to such prophetic classics as Samuel Butler's Erewhon, Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, H. G. Wells' When the Sleeper Wakes, Karel Capek's RUR, and George Orwell's 1984.
