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EXHIBITIONS
Exhibitions 2010
The Complete METROPOLIS
Rotwang's House
Rotwang lives in a small, archaic building with a pointed gable roof stretching toward the ground. The eerie cottage seems utterly out of place before its backdrop of skyscrapers and it accommodates more rooms than appear logical from its windowless façade. The front door enters onto a corridor with stairs at the end leading to a library. The attic garret is Maria’s prison, where a skylight expressionistically casts distorted light onto the wall. On the ground floor is a round room with many doors, which will become a trap for Freder. A spiral staircase
connects this room to the Catacombs.
Rotwang’s high-tech laboratory is filled with glass beakers in which liquids bubble and mysterious equipment releases tremendous electrical currents. A glass vacuum tube in which Maria will be captured is on a laboratory table. Behind a curtain is a stone throne for the robot.
In the house is also a room devoted to Hel, the decreased lover of both Rotwang and Fredersen. A gigantic sculpture of her head, chiseled in light-colored stone, commemorates her. The robot will be presented for the first time as a seductive vamp to the gentlemen of Metropolis in the adjacent Hall of Dance.
The exterior view of the house was built on the Babelsberg open-air studio lot. The special effects for the cyborg creation scene were produced through a clever system of multiple exposures.
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During filming
Hall of Dance
The Robot Maria
Design: A. Willkomm
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