As part of the DOC NAD/ project, it was aired in March10 the movie "Metropolis".
Metropolis was cut substantially after its German premiere, being much of the footage lost over the decades. There have been several efforts to restore it, as well as discoveries of previously lost footage, like the "fresh" 30 minutes discovered in 2008 in Argentina. Before that, a 2001 reconstruction of Metropolis, shown at the Berlin Film Festival, was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.
Metropolis was directed by Fritz Lang and it is an example of the german expressionism in a science fiction work. Filled with special effects and uncountable "sets", the movie production is still impressive nowadays.
Among the several special effects there are the city miniatures, a camera in a swinging support and, the most memorable, that became known as the "Schufftan proccess", the mirror usage to put actors inside the miniature sets.
The Maschinenmensch (machine-man), the robot interpreted by Brigitte Helm, was created from a new material called "plastic wood" (usually used to fulfill the space between two wooden boards). This material allowed to produce an outfit similar to an armor, having as a mold the actress body.
Brigitte Held suffered a lot during the shooting, since the outfit caused several bruises and cuts. Although the public couldn’t see who was behind the “mask”, Fritz Lang always insisted for Brigitte to play the role.
