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In this silent film, a city of the future is threatened with destruction when a wealthy corporate leader enlists a mad scientist to put down labor reformers.
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A futuristic look at the schism created in mankind as industrialization and technological advancement serves to alienate the humans from one another. People are divided into two groups: the thinkers--who make plans, yet don't know how to operate machinery, and the workers--who forward production without having any overview vision. Completely separate, neither group is complete; however, together they make a whole. When one man, a "thinker," dares to journey to the underground, where the workers 'slave away,' he's surprised at what he sees.

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Fritz Lang
Director
Brigitte Helm
as Maria, Robot Maria
Alfred Abel
as Joh Fredersen
Gustav Frolich
as Freder Fredersen
Theodor Loos
as Joseph
Erwin Biswanger
as Georgy Number 11811
Heinrich George
as Grot The Foreman
Olaf Strom
as Jan
Hans Leo Reich
as Marinus
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