Film: Metropolis

Metropolis offers an interesting twist to the Institute on World Affair's theme: "Humankind in the 1980's". While all scheduled events look at the future from a current perspective, this film takes the viewer back into how one writer in the 1920's imagined it. Metropolis is a silent film made in Germany before World War II and is put to piano accompaniment. This cross between Buck Rogers and George Orwell was acclaimed as a masterpiece and contains some of the most expensively mounted special effects to come out of the movie industry technology of its day.
Part of the World Affairs Series