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All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang is known for adapting Metropolis, the book by Thea von Harbou published in 2014, for cinema.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
Metropolis. Poster of the 1927 movie and cover of the 1925 book
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Metropolis
Thea von Harbou, 1925
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Metropolis
Fritz Lang, 1927

In the future, in the Million-acre city of Metropolis, wealthy industrialists and business magnates and their top employees reign from 50 to 1,000-story skyscrapers, while underground-dwelling workers toil to operate the great machines that power the city. Maria and the children are ushered away, but Freder, fascinated, goes to the lower levels to find her.