
Peter Krasinski, noted organist who specializes in live, improvised silent film accompaniment, takes the bench of The Great Organ for this showing of Fritz Lang's 1927 film, Metropolis. Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, and Rudolf Klein-Rogge star. Its visual style set the blueprint for nearly every sci-fi dystopia and cyber-thriller that followed.
Packed with jaw-dropping Art Deco architecture, history's first screen android, and pioneering visual effects created long before digital CGI, the film plays out a a high-stakes, fast-paced thriller.