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Shift change.

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Deep beneath

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the earth lay the

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city of the workers.

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As deep beneath the earth

as the city of the workers lay,

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so high above it towered the complex

known as the "sons' club",

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with its lecture halls and libraries,

its theatres and stadiums.

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Fathers, for whom every revolution

of a mechanical wheel meant gold,

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had bestowed upon their sons

the wonder of the eternal gardens.

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Which of you ladies shall today

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have the honour of entertaining

master Freder, Joh Fredersen's son?

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Look! These are your brothers!

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Look —!

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These are your brothers!

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Who — was that?

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But this was what happened to Freder...

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The son of Joh Fredersen,

the master of Metropolis...

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As he sought out the girl:

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To the new Tower of Babel —

To my father —!

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Why is it, Josaphat, that I learn of this

explosion from my son, and not from you —!

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Details —!

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What were you looking for

in the machine-halls, Freder?

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I wanted to look into the faces of the people whose

little children are my brothers, my sisters...

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Your magnificent city, father...

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And you the brain of this city — and all

of us within the light of this city...

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And where are the people, father,

whose hands built your city —?

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Off where they belong...

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Off where they belong...?

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In the depths...?

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And if those in the depths

one day rise against you?

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The chief foreman of the heart-machine,

Grot, — with an important message...

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There were two more copies

of those damnable plans, herr Fredersen...

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In the pockets of two men who met

with an accident today at the m-machine...

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How is it, Josaphat, that these plans were

brought to me by Grot, rather than by you?

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Apply to the g-bank

for your remaining wages...

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Father, do you know what it means

to be dismissed by you?

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It means: To be sent below! —

Father — below! Into the depths —!

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Do you know what it means to be dismissed

like that by Joh Fredersen?

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Would you like to come with me,

Josaphat?

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Go home, Josaphat, and wait for me...

I still have a long way to go tonight...

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Into the depths, —

To my brothers...

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From today on I wish to be kept precisely

informed of my son's every move...

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Brother...

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The machine! There needs

to be someone at the machine!

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There will be someone at the machine...

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Listen to me...

I want to trade my life with you...

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Josaphat.

99th block. House 7, 7th floor.

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Wait for me — both of you...

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Josaphat.

99th block. House 7, 7th floor.

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Josaphat.

99th block. House 7, 7th floor.

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In the middle of Metropolis,

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there stands a strange house

that the centuries had overlooked.

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The man who dwelled within

was Rotwang, the inventor.

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Hel

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born to bring me happiness

and a benediction to all mankind.

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Lost to Joh Fredersen. Died giving

life to Freder, Joh Fredersen's son.

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A mind like yours, Rotwang,

should be able to forget...

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Only one time in life did I forget something:

That Hel was a woman — and you a man...

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Let the dead lie, Rotwang...

She's dead for you as she is for me...

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For me she isn't dead, Joh Fredersen —

For me she lives —!

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Do you think the loss of a hand

is too high a price for recreating Hel —?!

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Do you wish to see her —?!

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Now, Joh Fredersen —?!

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Isn't it worth losing a hand

to have created the man of the future...

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The machine-man —?!

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24 more hours of work...

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And no man, Joh Fredersen, will be able to

differentiate the machine-man from a mortal —!

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The woman is mine, Joh Fredersen!

Hel's son was yours!

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And what brings you my way,

Joh Fredersen?

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I need your advice —

As usual, when all my experts fail me...

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Can you decipher for me these plans

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that for months have been getting

discovered in the pockets of my workers?

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At two... once my shift ends!

She has summoned us again...

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Father —! Father —!

Will ten hours never come to an end —??!!

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It's a blueprint

of the two-thousand-year-old catacombs

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deep below the lowest levels

of your Metropolis...

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I should like to glean what my workers

are doing exactly in those catacombs...

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Today I shall tell you

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the legend of the construction

of the Tower of Babel...

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The legend of the construction

of the Tower of Babel

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Come! Let us build a tower

whose zenith shall reach unto the stars!

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And at the tower's zenith we shall write:

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Great is the world and its maker!

And great is man!

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But those who had conceived

of the Tower of Babel

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could not build the Tower of Babel.

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The task was too great.

So they paid wages to outside hands...

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But the hands that built the Tower of Babel

knew nothing of the dream

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of which the head that had conceived it

had been fantasising.

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The hymns of praise of one man

became the curses of others.

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The same language was spoken, but

these men did not understand one another...

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Great is the world and its maker

and great is man

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Head and hands require a mediator.

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The mediator between head and hands

must be the heart!

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And where is our mediator,

Maria —?

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Wait for him!

He will surely come!

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We will wait, Maria...!

But not for much longer —!

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Oh mediator,

have you finally come...

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You summoned me — here I am!

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Rotwang, give the machine-man

the likeness of this woman...

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I shall sow discord

between them and her!

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I shall destroy their belief

in this woman...

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Leave me alone now, Joh Fredersen...

You'll find the way back without me...

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You fool! Now you shall also lose the last

remaining thing you still had from Hel...

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Your 50"...

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Until tomorrow, in the cathedral!

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End of the prelude

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intermezzo

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Freder witnesses a monk at the pulpit

who preaches:

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"Verily, I say unto you: The days

of which the apocalypse speaks draw nigh!"

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The monk's hand points to the Bible,

in which it is written:

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"And I saw a woman sit upon a Scarlet

coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy,

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having seven heads and ten horns.

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And the woman was arrayed

in purple and Scarlet colour,

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having a golden cup in her hand.

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And upon her forehead was a name

written, a mystery:

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Babylon the great, the mother

of abominations of the earth.

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And I saw the woman drunken

with the blood of the saints."

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You will annihilate Joh Fredersen —

Him and his city and his son —!

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Gluttony

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avarice

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pride

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lust

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envy

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anger

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sloth

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Had you come earlier,

you wouldn't have frightened me...

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I now beg of you: Stay away from me

and my beloved...!

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Where is the one whose clothes

you are wearing?

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Josaphat.

99th block. House 7, 7th floor.

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Would you please wake Georgy up?

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He must lead me

to the workers' city at once...

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No. 11811, get back to the machine and

forget that you ever left it — understood?

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I have to have someone

who's faithful to me, Josaphat...

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Otherwise, how shall I attain the end-goal

of my path —?!

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I must go on, Josaphat, —

Must now, on my own,

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seek out the person to whom Georgy

was supposed to lead me...

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Tonight, Josaphat —

Tonight when I come back...

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Josaphat.

99th block. House 7, 7th floor.

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So, what price are you demanding

for leaving this residence tonight?

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You still don't seem to have grasped

who sent me here...

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Central bank of Metropolis

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this man doesn't want his son

to find you still here tonight!

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In three hours' time

I shall be calling for you!

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Come! It is time to give the man-machine

your face!

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Where is Maria —?!

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She's with your father...

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I'm telling you,

she is with your father —!

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"She is the most perfect and most obedient

tool that a man has ever possessed!

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Tonight you shall see how she holds up

before the eyes of the upper hundred.

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You shall see her dance, and if only one

single person recognises the machine in her,

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I will call myself a bungler

who never succeeded at anything!

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C. Rotwang"

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"C. A. Rotwang requests herr Joh Fredersen

to be his guest this evening."

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I want you to go to those in the depths in

order to annihilate the work of your prototype!

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"C. A. Rotwang requests herr Joh Fredersen

to be his guest this evening."

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Verily, I say unto you: The days of

which the apocalypse speaks draw nigh...!

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All seven deadly sins,

on her behalf —!

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Death overtakes the city —!

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End of the intermezzo

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The revelation of St. John

Avalun Publishing, Hellerau

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I escaped from the thin man

wearing this attire...

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But for ten days your father's bloodhound

has been making the workers' city unsafe...

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The only thing keeping the workers in check

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is their expectation for the mediator

promised unto them...

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Even stranger things

have been happening, Freder...

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On that evening when you fell ill...

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Once the best of friends...

Because of that woman...

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The other man...

On that same evening...

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The eternal gardens lie abandoned...

But night after night in yoshiwara...

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And this woman,

at whose feet all sins are heaped...

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Is also called Maria...

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That same woman that those in the depths

regard as a Saint —?!

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Many now go to the city of the dead,

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to a woman they have judged

to be as true as gold.

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The mediator is not likely

to miss that occasion...

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Whatever happens tonight:

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It is my express order to allow the workers

to do as they please...

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Joh Fredersen wants to let those in

the depths use force and do wrong

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so that he can claim the right

to use force against them...

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When you spoke to your poor brothers,

you talked about peace, Maria...

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Today a mouthpiece of Joh Fredersen

incites them to rebel against him...

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She will destroy their belief

in the mediator!

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You know I've always talked about peace...

But your mediator hasn't come...

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You've waited long enough!

Your time has come —!

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But I've tricked Joh Fredersen!

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Your clone does not obey his will —

Only mine alone!

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Who is the living fodder

for the machines for Metropolis —?!

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Who smears the machine-joints

with their own marrow —?!

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Who feeds the machines

with their own flesh —?!

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Let the machines starve, you fools —!

Finish them off — I!

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Do them in — these machines — I!

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You aren't Maria —!!!

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You are not Maria —!

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Maria talks of peace, not murder —!

This is not Maria — I!

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Joh Fredersen's son — I!

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Do him in, the dog,

in his white silken hide —!!!

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Get your women, your sons,

out of the workers' city!

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Let no-one stay behind!

Death to the machines —!!!

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In the attic of his home,

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Rotwang displays

for Maria his ever-growing intoxication

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with his triumph over Fredersen:

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"— And twice over did I

trick Joh Fredersen —!

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For I concealed from him that his son wants

to be the mediator of your brothers...

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And is in love with you —!"

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Maria isn't the only

one listening to Rotwang.

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On the other side of the attic's window,

Joh Fredersen was eavesdropping...

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Joh Fredersen breaks into Rotwang's attic. He

wrestles with his old rival and overtakes him.

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Maria is free.

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Faithful after all...

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Come, Freder! We still have

to go through the workers' city.

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Women and men,

let no-one miss out on today —!

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Death to the machines — I!

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Not one man —

Not one woman has stayed behind —!

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Leave the machines —!

Let them race to their death —!

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To the heart-machine —!

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Danger

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Open the gates!

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You have to open the gates!

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If the heart-machine perishes,

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nothing in the machine-district

will be left standing — I!

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Have you lost your minds —??

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If the heart-machine perishes, the entire

workers' city will be laid to waste — I!

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Where are your fathers,

your mothers?

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Do you have any idea that your son

is amongst the workers?!

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Yes — you! You're Maria —!

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To the air shafts — quickly! Quickly! The

reservoirs have burst! The city is drowning —!

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We'll take the children

to the sons' club!

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Why are all the lights out?

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I need to know —!

Where is my son?!!!

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Tomorrow thousands

will ask in fury and desperation:

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Joh Fredersen,

where is my son —?!

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Where are your children??!

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The city is drowned,

the shafts are totally flooded — I!

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Who bade you attack the machines, without

which you're finished, you idiots —??!

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It's the witch's fault —!

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We'll be looking on

as the world goes to the devil —!

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Find the witch; This is all her fault —!

Strike her dead — I!

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Now I'm going to take you home,

my Hel —!

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The witch —! The witch —!

There she is —! There she is —!

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Where are our children,

you witch, you —??!

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Burn the witch. —

To the stake with her!!!

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To the stake with her — I!

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Hel—! My Hel—!!

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Your children... saved —!!!

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Head and hands want to join together,

but they don't have the heart to do it...

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Oh mediator,

show them the way to one another...

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The mediator between head and hands

must be the heart!