Still timely 90 years later, Fritz Lang’s influential silent film portrays a futuristic dystopia whose economy relies heavily on class segregation and exploitation of labor. The conflicts inherent in such a society are embodied by a young member of the elite, son of the city’s architect, who befriends a working-class teacher. A Bates International Science Fiction Festival film screening. (Germany, 1927; 93 min.) FMI nfaries@bates.edu.