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Berlin: Symphony Of A Great City

This silent montage film was hugely influential. It was made during the Weimar era when Germany had emerged from the initial after effects of World War I. We view Berlin - Germany's most modern, cosmopolitan and liberal metropolis. ' It leaps swiftly from rich to poor, from man to machine and back again, from the grandeur of the city-scape to the sewers beneath, and always movement, movement in every way that can be found. Trains, trams, horses, bustling crowds, spinning wheels and fairground rides, boat races, horse races, dog races, dancing and pounding machines, always we see the dynamism of a city in motion. It is an extraordinarily beautiful film, and its distance from us in time and in experience only emphasises that beauty. Like a carved miniature, it offers us a model of Berlin brought close and intimate, and yet viewed from across an unbridgeable gap.'

Running Time: 65 minutes
Director: Walter Ruttmann
Author: Carl Mayer, Walter Ruttmann, Karl Freund