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Originally Posted by Quoth
I think all of ground-breaking Metropolis has been recovered, though a few bits are poor quality. The original VHS had a lot missing. Unfortunately the complete BD has only the captions in the original German, no subtitles. Still, Fritz Lang was a genius and you can mostly follow without caption catds as it's a silent film, though with a good music score.
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About 25% of the original cut was missing until about, I think 2007 or 2008 when someone found a backup copy in Argentina.