Weimar Republic Dance Sequence from ’Metropolis’ (1927)

As you may be aware by now from recent uploads of Claire Waldorf, Anita Berber, Sebastian Droste and Margo Lion, I’m more than just a bit interested in the theatre and cabaret of the Weimar Republic. So I was too tempted not to upload this edgy, slightly frenetic at times surreal dance sequence from Fritz Lang’s 1927 science fiction film masterpiece ’Metropolis’. The sequence is in fact the product of a man’s feverish delirium, with all its implied meanings. The dancer here is Brigitte Helm, who plays the