 The most expensive movie poster is a 1927 art-deco poster made to market the German sci-fi classic Metropolis by Fritz Lang. The poster was sold to a Californian collector Ken Schacter for USD 690,000 in 2005 by Andrew Cohen, a British business person and owner of the mail-order firm Betterware. The sepia-toned poster featuring the futuristic skyline with the face of the gynoid, Maschinenmensch, was created by art-deco artist Heinz Schulz-Neudamm; a fitting representation of the most expensive silent film of its time. 3 copies of the equivalent poster are known to exist: one is currently stored at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; an additional in the Berlin's Film Museum and one belonging in a private collection. Metropolis is a movie set in a futuristic urban dystopia that explores the social dynamics within workers and owners in capitalism. The movie is one of the first full-length film of the science fiction genre, and is famous for its portrayal of a cityscape focused by high skyscrapers and monumental metal structures. |
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