Date: 18 January 2009
Location: Arnolfini, Bristol
Time: 19:00

£6 / £5 (Concs / Bristol Silents members)

Fritz Lang's gothic-futurist masterpiece was, at the time, the most lavish production in German film history; a sprawling epic which featured huge sets and over 36,000 extras. Thea von Harbou's screenplay, about a high-tech future society where a small clique of powerful industrialists lord over an exploited industrial class, remains a potent exploration of compassion within a brutally industrialized imagined future society (which took its cues from the development of German capitalism in the 1920s ). Yet it is really the film's astounding visual power, breathtaking to this day, that has ensured its place among the all-time greats.

This screening is accompanied by a specially commissioned new experimental live score, taking influences from German electronic pioneers and krautrock, by London-based duo Hook and the Twin

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