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Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

1927 · 69 min

A hypnotic, wordless drift through a day in a vanished city, where rhythmic images of machines, crowds and streets build into a strange, beautiful symphony.

Directed by
Walter Ruttmann
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Paul von Hindenburg
Overview
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

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Directed by
Walter Ruttmann
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Paul von Hindenburg
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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
None
Places
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour3
Realism9
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity7
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Walter Ruttmann
Written by
Walter Ruttmann, Karl Freund
Starring
Paul von Hindenburg
Music
Edmund Meisel
Cinematography
Robert Baberske, Reimar Kuntze
Runtime
69 min
Country
Germany
Languages
No Language

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