Sunday Silent Film: Metropolis

27th September 2026

The Palace Cinema

Come and watch the restored full cut of Fritz Lang’s iconic 1926 silent classic Metropolis at Palace Cinema in Broadstairs

Start time: 3pm

While they wait for their regular pianist Lillian Henley to return from her summer break, The Palace Cinema are delighted to be showing the restored full cut of Fritz Lang’s iconic 1926 silent classic Metropolis with a pre-recorded symphonic score.

Set in a future city where the lucky inhabitants of gilded society reside comfortably high above the unlucky masses slaving underground, we follow the city leader’s son on an odyssey to the depths in pursuit of Maria, a teacher he met briefly on her visit to the city above. Meanwhile, her evil robot doppelgänger is set loose on a mission to corrupt and destroy the city.

Based on Thea von Harbou’s novel of the same name, director Fritz Lang also claimed to have been inspired by his first glimpse of the New York skyline. Their expressionist, dystopian vision, realised in collaboration with the groundbreaking work of their German Expressionist production designers and cinematographers, results in one of the very greatest and grandest films of the silent era and a prediction of the where modernity and machines might lead.

It is one of the first science fiction feature films, arguably the most influential of all. Countless filmmakers have been inspired by the film’s audacious futuristic imagery, from Frankenstein (1931) to Blade Runner (1982), while the film’s iconic ‘Maria’ robot has inspired numerous performers and designers, from Beyoncé to Thierry Mugler.

They are delighted to present Metropolis at the Palace accompanied by the recording by the Berlin Symphony Orchestra of Gottfried Huppertz’s original score.

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Sunday Silent Film: Metropolis Harbour St, Broadstairs
CT10 1ET

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info@thepalacecinema.co.uk 01843 865726

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