(1) All that survive of the original Metropolis" are an incomplete copy
(2) of the negative and shortened and re-edited release prints.
(3) Over a quarter of the film is now considered lost.
(4) The present version, which combines all of the surviving elements,
(5) attempts to recreate the film
(6) as it was shown at its premiere.
(7) The intertitles have been reproduced in their original form.
(8) Intertitles in a different typeface like this one)
(9) Have been added to summarize the plot of the missing sections.
(10) Black film stock indicates shorter sections of missing footage.
(11) Epigram: The mediator between brain and hands must be the heart!
(12) Shift change.
(13) Deep below
(14) the earth's surface
(15) lay the workers' city.
(16) As deep as lay
(17) the workers' city below the earth, so high above it towered
(18) the complex named the "Club of the Sons,"
(19) with its lecture halls and libraries, its theaters and stadiums.
(20) Fathers for whom every revolution of a machine wheel meant gold
(21) Fathers for whom every revolution of a machine wheel meant gold
(22) had created for their sons the miracle of the Eternal Gardens.
(23) Which of you ladies shall today have the honor
(24) of entertaining Master Freder, Joh Fredersen's son?"
(25) Look! These are your brothers!"
(26) Look...!"
(27) These are your brothers!"
(28) Who- was that?"
(29) But this is what happened to Freder son of Joh Fredersen,
(30) master of Metropolis - when he went in search of the girl:
(31) To the new Tower of Babel - to my father-!"
(32) Why is it, Josaphat, that I learn of the explosion
(33) from my son, and not from you...!"
(34) The details...!"
(35) What were you doing in the machine halls, Freder?"
(36) I wanted to look into the faces of the people whose little children
(37) are my brothers, my sisters..."
(38) Your magnificent city, Father and you the brain of this city -
(39) and all of us in the city's light..."
(40) and where are the people, father, whose hands built your city... - ?"
(41) Where they belong..."
(42) In the depths?"
(43) What if one day those in the depths rise up against you?"
(44) The chief foreman of the Heart Machine, Grot -
(45) with an important message..."
(46) Two more of those damned plans, Mr. Fredersen..."
(47) in the pockets of two men involved involved in today's accident
(48) at the M-Machine..."
(49) Why is it, Josaphat, that these plans were brought to me by Grot,
(50) and not by you?"
(51) Apply to the G-Bank for your remaining wages..."
(52) Father, do you know what it means to be dismissed by you?
(53) It means: Go below! - Father! Go below! Into the depths...!"
(54) Do you know what it means to be dismissed like that by Joh Fredersen?"
(55) Would you like to come with me, Josaphat?"
(56) Where do you live, Josaphat?" Freder asked,
(57) and noted: Block 99, House 7, 7th Floor.
(58) Go home, Josaphat, and wait for me...
(59) I still have a long way to go tonight..."
(60) Into the depths, to be with my brothers..."
(61) Beginning today I wish to be kept informed of every step taken by my son..."
(62) Brother..."
(63) the machine! Someone has to stay at the machine!"
(64) Someone will stay at the machine..."
(65) ME"
(66) Listen to me... I want to trade lives with you!"
(67) Meanwhile, the Thin Man, Joh Fredersen's spy, is watching the spot
(68) where Freder's chauffeur has parked his car.
(69) Block 99, House 7, 7th Floor.
(70) Wait for me- both of you..."
(71) The Thin Man watches Freder's car drive off.
(72) Worker 11811 has shown the chauffeur the note with Josaphat's address...
(73) But 11811 betrays his promise. Finding money, lots of money,
(74) in Freder's clothes, he succumbs
(75) to the temptations of the city and the night...
(76) Instead of going to Josaphat's apartment,
(77) he has himself driven to Yoshiwara, Metropolis's entertainment district.
(78) In the middle of Metropolis is a strange house,
(79) In the middle of Metropolis is a strange house,
(80) overlooked by the centuries.
(81) Here lives Rotwang, the inventor.
(82) In a high, gloomy room of the old house, Joh Fredersen waits for Rotwang.
(83) He notices a small alcove concealed by a curtain. He draws it open.
(84) There, on a pedestal as wide as a wall and as tall as a man,
(85) he sees the stone head of a woman.
(86) Joh Fredersen's eyes fall on the words engraved on the pedestal."
(87) HEL BORN FOR MY HAPPINESS AND MANKIND'S BLESSING.
(88) LOST TO JOH FREDERSEN DIED GIVING BIRTH TO FREDER, JOH FREDERSEN'S SON.
(89) Rotwang has silently entered the room with the monument.
(90) Furious, he tears closed the curtain in front of the bust.
(91) The angrier Rotwang becomes, the calmer grows Joh Fredersen.
(92) A brain like yours, Rotwang," he says to the raving man,
(93) should be able to forget..."
(94) Only once in my life did I forget anything:
(95) That Hel was a woman, and you a man..."
(96) Let the dead rest in peace, Rotwang...
(97) For you, as for me, she is dead..."
(98) For me, she is not dead, Joh Fredersen,
(99) for me, she lives...!"
(100) Do you think that losing a hand is too high a price
