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In the literature of Science Fiction, there is no more an underappreciated and ignored piece of writing than Thea Von Harbou's magnificent Metropolis. The book, a novelization of the screenplay the author wrote for her husband Fritz Lang's film masterpiece of the same... Read Full Overview

This city of the future encompasses two worlds: that of the hedonistic ruling class and that of a segregated subculture, toilers in a mechanized underworld who labor to provide the rich with their pleasures. When a charismatic leader arises, she seeks a savior to unite the disparate... Read Full Overview

This city of the future encompasses two worlds: that of the hedonistic ruling class and that of a segregated subculture, toilers in a mechanized underworld who labor to provide the rich with their pleasures. When a charismatic leader arises, she seeks a savior to unite the... Read Full Overview

This is Metropolis, the novel that the film's screenwriter-Thea von Harbou, who was director Fritz Lang's wife, and a collaborator in the creation of the film-this is the novel that Harbou wrote from her own notes. It contains bits of the story that got lost on the cutting-room... Read Full Overview

Metropolis is set in 2026, in a technologically advanced city, which is sustained by the existence of an underground society of laborers, a futuristic urban dystopia and follows the attempts of Freder, the wealthy son of the city's ruler and Maria, a poor worker, to overcome... Read Full Overview

She was not screaming for food. She was screaming: Danger--! Danger--! The screaming did not stop. It howled on, incessantly. Who had dared to unchain the voice of the great Metropolis, which otherwise obeyed no one but Joh Fredersen? Was Joh. Fredersen-no longer in this house?... Read Full Overview

Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) is a defining film of the silent era and science fiction genre. But the work of the film's still photographer Horst von Harbou has remained obscure. Von Harbou, brother of Thea von Harbou, Lang's then wife and co-screenwriter of Metropolis, photographed... Read Full Overview

This is Metropolis, the novel that the film's screenwriter -- Thea von Harbou, who was director Fritz Lang's wife, and a collaborator in the creation of the film -- this is the novel that Harbou wrote from her own notes. It contains bits of the story that got lost on the cutting-room... Read Full Overview

Metropolis is set in 2026 in a technologically-advanced city, which is sustained by the existence of an exploited class of laborers who live underground, far away from the gleaming surface world.

Freder, the son of one of the city's founders, falls in love with Maria,... Read Full Overview

Metropolis is set in 2026 in a technologically-advanced city, which is sustained by the existence of an exploited class of laborers who live underground, far away from the gleaming surface world.

Freder, the son of one of the city's founders, falls in love with Maria,... Read Full Overview

This is Metropolis, the novel that the film's screenwriter -- Thea von Harbou, who was director Fritz Lang's wife, and a collaborator in the creation of the film -- this is the novel that Harbou wrote from her own notes. It contains bits of the story that got lost on the cutting-room... Read Full Overview

This classic science fiction masterpiece, which inspired the 1927 film, one of the actual icons of the silent cinema, is an allegory, a bleak epic of a future time when men will toil far below the city of their masters, who live in luxury in a gleaming, dazzling paradise far... Read Full Overview

Metropolis is a 1925 science fiction novel by the German writer Thea von Harbou. The novel was the basis for and written in tandem with Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis.