INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Artists Forum (IAF) in Tehran on Friday.The 153-minute movie will be shown with Persian subtitle at the Nasseri Hall of the IAF at 6 p.m.,
Honaronline reported.A black -and-white silent film, it oscillates between expressionism and new objectivity
Adapted from the original novel by Thea von Harbou, the screenplay was co-written by her and Fritz Lang, who were married at the time
between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts
the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.A critical and commercial failure upon its release, despite being, at the time, the most
the point of achieving the status of a major masterpiece in the history of cinema, as evidenced by its multiple influences up to the present
World International Register.Fritz Lang (1890-1976) was an Austro-Hungarian director, a German dual national by marriage from 1919, and a
naturalized American in 1935.Inventor of a large number of innovative techniques that have become standards and earned him the title of
manipulation of crowds by a superman, the struggle for power, the violence of man for man, and freedom for evil
This article first appeared/also appeared in Tehran Times
