“Lost scenes from German-Austrian director Fritz Lang’s legendary 1927 silent film Metropolis discovered in Argentina last year will be sent to Wiesbaden for restoration, officials from the two countries announced this week,” reports The Local.

In July 2008 the director of the Museo del Cine in Buenes Aires discovered an uncut version of Metropolis which revealed some key plot scenes: the role played by the Fritz Rasp in the film for instance, could finally be understood. Other scenes, such as the saving of the children from the workers’ underworld, are considerably more dramatic. The footage is, however, in bad need of restoration after eighty years. The experts in Wiesbaden will undertake this monumental task in order to release the full masterwork to the public one day.