Big news.
Anyone who has seen Fritz Lang's seminal science fiction film Metropolis, knows there's some missing footage. Some sequences jerk forward like a fifteen year-old with a stick shift. After its Berlin premiere in 1927, it was repeatedly cut down by distributors looking to shorten the running time. All we're left with today are those truncated versions, the original prints have long since been lost.
Or have they?
You should read more here and here, but it seems that the closest thing we have to Lang's original version has been uncovered in Buenos Aires. Sent to Argentina in 1928, this print has been in the hands of collectors, eventually ending up at the Museo del Cine where it was "rediscovered" in January. While significantly longer, this is still not the complete version. Exciting nonetheless!
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