All language subtitles for Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition) 2010

Following its first
projection, the film...

'Metropolis' was considerably
shortened and modified.

More than a quarter of the original
film was regarded as lost.

In 2008, an almost
complete copy was...

found in Buenos Aires.
The print was seriously...

deteriorated and the
image partly truncated...

because of the
copy's 16-mm format.

This version contains
new scenes and made...

it possible to correct
the order of sequences.

The Spanish inter-titles
were recreated.

A black edge was applied
where the image is...

truncated to fit the 16-mm format.

The inter-titles appear
in their original style.

The lost parts essential
to the comprehension...

of the plot are summarized...

by titles in a modern font.
The shorter missing sections are...

marked with black frames.

A film produced by Ufa and
distributed by Parafumet.

Shift change.

Down below...

the Earth's surface was...

the workers' city.

As deep as lay the workers'
city below the earth,

So high above it towered
the complex club...

named the 'Club of
the Sons,' with its...

lecture halls and libraries, its
theatres and stadiums

Fathers for whom every revolution
of a machine wheel meant gold...

had created for their sons the
miracle of the Eternal Gardens...

'Which of you ladies shall
today have the honour...

of entertaining Master Freder,
Joh Fredersen's son?'

'Look. These are your brothers.

Look --.

'These are your brothers.'

'Who -- was that?'

But this is what
happened to Freder --...

son of Joh Fredersen,
Master of Metropolis --

When he went to
search for the girl:

'To the new Tower of Babel.
To my father.'

'Why is it, Josaphat, that
I learn of the explosion...

from my son, and
not from you --.'

'The details.'

'What were you doing in the
machine halls, Freder?'

'I wanted to see the
faces of the people...

whose children are my
brothers and sisters...'

Your marvellous city, father --
and you the city's brain --...

and all of us the city's light... --'

'And where are the people, Father,
whose hands built your city?'

'Where they belong...'

'Where they belong?'

'...in the depths...?'

'What if one day those in the
depths rise up against you?'

'The chief foreman of
the Heart Machine,

Grot -- with an important message'

'Two more of those damned
plans, Mr. Fredersen...'

'...in the pockets of
two men involved...

in today's accident
at the M-Machine'

'Why is it, Josaphat,
that these plans were...

brought to me by Grot,
and not by you?'

'Apply to the G-Bank for
your remaining wages --'

'Father, do you know
what it means to be...

dismissed by you? --

It means: Go below. --
Father. -- go below.

Into the depths --.'

'Do you know what
it means to be...

dismissed like that
by Joh Fredersen?'

'Do you want to work for me,
Josaphat?'

'Go home, Josaphat,
and wait for me...

I still have a long way
to go tonight...'

'Into the depths, -- to be
with my brothers...'

'Beginning today I
wish to be kept...

informed of every
step my son takes...'

'Brother...'

'...the machine.... Someone h a s
to stay at the machine.'

'Someone w i l l stay
at the machine...'

ME.'

'Listen to me...
I want to trade lives with you.'

'Wait for me --both of you...'

Yoshiwara -- the district of vice.

In the heart of
Metropolis there was a...

strange house, overlooked
by the centuries.

The man who lived in it was
Rotwang, the inventor.

Born for my happiness
and mankind's blessing.

Lost to Joh Fredersen.
Died giving birth...

to Freder, Joh Fredersen's son.

'A brain like yours, Rotwang,
should be able to forget...'

'Only once in my life did
I forget anything:

that Hel was a woman,
and you a man...'

'Let the dead rest
in peace, Rotwang...

For you, as for me, she is dead...'

'For me, she is not
dead, Joh Fredersen,

for me, she lives --!'

'Do you think that losing
a hand is too high...

a price to pay for
re-creating Hel --?.

'Do you want to see her?'

So, Joh Fredersen --?.
Isn't it worth...

the loss of a hand
to have created...

the man of the future?

the MACHINE-Man --?.'

Give me another 24 hours, and no...

one, Joh Fredersen, no
one will be able...

to tell a Machine-Man
from a mortal --.'

'The woman is m i
n e, Joh Fredersen.

The son of Hel was yours.'

'And what brings you to me,
Joh Fredersen?'

'As usual, when my
experts fail me,

I come to you for advice...'

For months now, we
have been finding...

these plans in my
workers' clothes.

What do they mean?'

...at two... at the end of the shift.
S H E has summoned us again...'

'Father --. Father --.
Will ten hours never end? ?.'

' --it is a plan of the
2000-year-old catacombs...

deep below the lowest
level of your Metropolis...'

'I should like to know
what my workers...

are doing in the catacombs.'

'Today I will tell
you the legend of the

TOWER OF BABEL'

Come, let us build
a tower whose top...

may reach unto the stars.

'And on the top of the tower
we will write the words:

Great is the World and its Creator.
And Great is Man.'

but the minds that had conceived...

the Tower of Babel
could not build it.

The task was too great.
So they hired hands for wages.

But the hands that
build the Tower of Babel...

knew nothing of the dream of the
brain that had conceived it.

One man's hymns of praise
became other men's curses

People spoke the same language,

but could not understand
each other...

Great is the world and its Creator
And Great is Man

There must be a mediator
between HEADS and HANDS...

'THE MEDIATOR BETWEEN
HEAD AND HANDS MUST

BE THE HEART.'

'But where is OUR
mediator, Maria --?'

'Wait for him.
He will surely come.'

'We will wait, Maria --.
But not much longer --.'

'Oh, mediator, have
you finally come?'

'You called me -- Here I am.'

Rotwang, give the Machine-Man
the likeness of that girl.

I shall sow discord between
them and her.

'I shall destroy their belief
in this woman --'

Leave me alone now,
Joh Fredersen...

You will find the
way back without me�'

'You fool. Now you
will lose the one...

remaining thing you have
from Hel -- your son.'

'Until tomorrow, in the cathedral.'

Feder sees a monk in the
pulpit who preaches:

'Verily, I say unto you, the days...

spoken of in the
Apocalypse are nigh.'

The monk's hand points to the
Bible, in which is written:

'And I saw a woman
sit upon a scarlet...

coloured beast, full
of names of blasphemy,

having seven heads
and ten horns...'

...And the woman was arrayed in...

purple and scarlet
colour, having a...

golden cup in her hand...

...And upon her
forehead was a name...

written, mystery,
Babylon the Great,

the mother of abominations
of the earth.'

'You will destroy Joh Fredersen --
him and his city and his son.'

'If you had come
earlier, you wouldn't...

have scared me...But
now I beg you:

Stay away from me
and my beloved....'

'Where is he,
whose clothes you wear?'

'Will you please wake Georgy?
He must take me at...

once to the Worker's City...'

'No. 11811, you will return
to your machine...

and forget that you
ever left it --understand?'

'I must have someone who
is loyal to me, Josaphat.

- - how else can I reach the
end of my Journey -- ?.'

'I must continue, Josaphat

I must now look
only to the People,

to whom Georgy
pointed the way...'

'This evening, Josaphat � this
evening, when I return...'

'So, what price do you ask in order
to leave this house this evening?'

'You do not seem to
have understood,

on whose behalf I am here...'

'This man does not
wish that his son...

be found here this evening.'

'In three hours I'll come for you.'

'Come. It is time to give the
Machine-Man your face.'

'Where is Maria --?.'

'She is with your father...'

'I tell you, she is with
your father -- --.'

She is the most
perfect and obedient...

tool that ever a man possessed.

Tonight you'll see,

as she is unveiled before
the eyes of the...

top hundred. You'll
see her dancing...

C.A. Rotwang requests
Joh Fredersen...

to be his guest this evening.

'I want you to visit
those in the depths,

in order to destroy the work...

of the woman in whose
image you were created.'

C.A. Rotwang requests
Joh Frederson...

to be his guest this evening.

'Verily, I say unto you, the days...

spoken of in the
Apocalypse are nigh....'

'All seven deadly
sins for her sake.'

'Death descends upon
the city -- --.'

The Book of Revelations

I put on this disguise to escape
from the Thin Man... But for ten...

days your father's spy...

has been making even
the workers' city risky...'

'The only thing
keeping the workers...

in check is that they
still wait for the

Mediator that was
promised to them...'

'More strange things have
happened, Freder...'

'On the night you fell sick...'

'...once the best of friends were,
because of that woman...'

'...the other man...
the same evening...'

'The Eternal Gardens
lie abandoned,

but night after night
in Yoshiwara...'

'And this woman, at whose
feet all sins are heaped...'

...is also named Maria...'

'The same woman
who those in the...

depths look up to as a saint --?.'

'Many now go to the City of the
Dead, to a woman who has...

proven herself as true as gold.'

'But the mediator must
not be missing.'

'Whatever happens tonight,
it is my express orders to let the...

workers do as they will...'

'Joh Fredersen wants to let those...

in the depths use
force and do wrong,

'so that he can claim the
right to use force against them...'

'When you spoke to your poor...

brothers, you spoke
of peace, Maria...

Today a mouthpiece
of Joh Fredersen...

is inciting them to
rebel against him...'

'She will destroy their
belief in a mediator.'

'You know that I have always
spoken of peace but your...

mediator has not come...'

'You have waited long enough.
Your time as come --.'

'...but I have tricked
Joh Fredersen. Your...

double does not obey
his will --only mine.'

'Who is the living food for the
machines in Metropolis?.'

'Who lubricates the machine
joints with their own blood?.'

'Who feeds the machines
with their own flesh?.'

'Let the machines
starve, you fools --.

Let them die --.'

'Kill them -- the machines --.'

'You are not Maria --.'

'YOU ARE NOT MARIA --.'

'Maria speaks of
peace, not killing --.

This is not Maria.

'Joh Fredersen's son --.'

'Kill him, the dog,
in his white silken fur --.'

'Get your women, your sons, from
the workers' city. Let no one stay...

behind. Death to the machines --...'

In the attic with Maria, Rotwang
grows ever more intoxicated...

by his triumph over Fredersen.

'...and I tricked Joh
Fredersen twice...

over --. For I concealed from him...

that his son wants to be your

Maria is not the only
one listening to

Rotwang. Outside the attic window

Joh Fredersen has
been eavesdropping...

Joh Fredersen breaks
into Rotwang's attic.

He battles with his old
rival, overcoming him.

Maria is free.

'...faithful after all...'

'Come, Freder. We must cross
the workers' quarters.'

'Women and men, let
no one miss today --.

Death to the machines --.'

'None --none remained behind.'

'Don't touch the machines --.
Let them speed to their deaths --.'

'To the Heart-Machine --.'

'Open the gates.'

'I said, open the gates.'

'If the Heart-Machine is destroyed,
the entire machine district...

will end up in ruins.'

'Have you gone mad --? ? If the
Heart-Machine is destroyed, the...

entire workers' city will flood --..'

'Where are you fathers,
your mothers?'

'Do you know that your son
is among the workers?'

'Yes --You. You are Maria --.'

'To the air shafts
- -quickly. Quickly. The...

reservoirs have burst.
The city is flooding --.'

'We'll take the children to
the Club of the Sons.'

'Why are all the lights out?'

'I must know. Where is my son?.'

'Tomorrow thousands
will ask in fury and...

desperation --Joh Fredersen,
where is my son. ?'

'Where are your children? ?.'

'The city lies
underwater, the shafts...

are completely flooded --.'

'Who told you to
attack the machines,

you idiots? Without
them you'll all die.'

'It's the witch's fault --.'

'Let's all watch as the
world goes to the devil.'

'Find the witch, this
is all her fault --.

Strike her dead --.'

'Now I'm going to take you
home, my Hel --.'

'The witch --. The witch --.
There she is --. There she is --.'

'Where are our children,
you witch --? ?.'

'Burn the witch. -- To
the stake with her.'

'To the stake with her --.'

'Hel --. My Hel --.'

'Your children...saved --.'

'Head and hands want
to join together,

but they don't have
the heart to do it...

'Oh mediator, show them the
way to each other.'