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Had Fritz Lang seen Aelita ?
The description of the rulers’
lives in their expressionist
paradise, like that the
underground existence of
the slaves, gives a foretaste
of Metropolis. But the style
is that of an entire epoch, when
Europe existed, when Berlin
was the capital of Russian art no
less than of the German art.
Alexandra Exter had worked in
France, she was friends with
Braque and Apollinaire,
Kandinsky had studied in
Munich, Lissitsky in
Darmstadt. It was Europe.
A culture was being born. Soon,
from Berlin to Moscow, the
morons would put some order
into all that.