BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (AP) - Lost scenes from the sci-fi classic "Metropolis," recently discovered in the archives of a Buenos Aires museum, were shown to journalists for the first time in decades on Thursday. A long-lost original cut of the...

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BERLIN - The Pablo Ducrós Hicken Film Museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina has found in its archives a copy of the movie “Metropolis” directed in 1927 by Fritz Lang, with lost footage. The silent film was one of the most expensive ones (around...
The lost scenes of the 1927 movie Metropolis had their first public showing in Buenos Aires on Thursday. (Eduardo Di Baia/Associated Press) With files from the Associated Press A long-lost original cut of the classic sci-fi film Metropolis,...