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Berlin. Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (Germany/France)

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

Director: Walter Ruttman   Alberto Cavalcanti 

Footage: 70min

Year: 1927　

One of the last important films of the Weimar period, the film creates an abstract portrait of Berlin in 1927.

The external framework is the life of the metropolis from morning until midnight. At first, a long-distance train travels through the suburbs, making us increasingly aware of the proximity of the colossus. The station, the dawn, Berlin! Gradually it awakens. It highlights fall on the centers of morning life, on stations, factories, road junctions. Midday arrives, evening arrives, again and again the objective fits to situations full of life.

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