Metropolis

Horst von Harbou (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

88 Seiten

2025
Steidl Verlag
978-3-86930-369-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) is a defining film of the silent era and science fiction genre. But the work of the film'sstill photographer Horst von Harbou has remained obscure. Von Harbou, brother of Thea von Harbou, Lang's then wifeand co-screenwriter of Metropolis, photographed filmed scenes as well as off-camera action, and made an album ofthirty-five photographs which he gave to the film's young star Brigitte Helm. The book Metropolis is a careful reconstructionof this album, showing the photographs and some of their backsides which feature hand-written notes. VonHarbou's photographs not only offer a rare insight into Lang's film, but have been crucial in reconstructing missingscenes from it.

Autor

Horst von Harbou was born in 1879 in Hutta, Posen, and died in 1953 in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Very little is known about von Harbou, except for the films on which he worked as a still photographer: these include Mensch ohne Namen (1932), Starke Herzen im Sturm (1937) and Augen der Liebe (1951).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.4.2026
• Verlagsort: Göttingen
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 230 x 170 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Schlagworte: Backstage • Brigitte Helm • Film • Filmkulissen • Fritz Lang • Harbou, Horst von • Klassiker • Lang, Fritz • Making-Of • Metropolis (Film) • Science-fiction
• ISBN-10: 3-86930-369-7 / 3869303697
• ISBN-13: 978-3-86930-369-7 / 9783869303697
• Zustand: Neuware