Symphony of a cosmopolitan city
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Symphony of a cosmopolitan city Berlin - How it was |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1941 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Leo de Laforgue |
| script | Friedrich Luft |
| production | Leo de Laforgue film production |
| music | Prof. Rudolf Kattnig based on original music by Paul Lincke , Walter Kollo , Otto Teich , Leo Leux |
| camera | Leo de Laforgue |
| cut | Hans Dieter Schiller |
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Symphony of a cosmopolitan city , or Berlin - How it was is a documentation of life in Berlin from 1941.
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The film is like a nostalgic city tour through Berlin before the city was destroyed by World War II. This topic was already very popular at the end of the 1920s, as is demonstrated by similar productions, such as the silent film Berlin - The Symphony of the Big City from 1927. Berlin - as it was , however, is a film with sound, in the sense that a speaker comments on the moving images while the corresponding music accompanies the text. The performance was banned by the National Socialists , however, because shortly after the film was finished, the depicted image of the city had changed, sometimes painfully, due to bomb damage. It was not until 1950 that it was premiered under the title “Berlin as it was”.
The film begins with aerial shots of Berlin. It starts the day over Berlin and shows several scenes of workers above and below ground. Pictures out the window in a back yard and street life. Milk and other goods are sold on the street. Nature awakens by a river. Fishermen bring the nets ashore. Riders start in a park. This is followed by pictures with facades in the city. A small band plays on the edge of a weekly market where fish and other food are sold. A carriage passes the largest and most modern buildings between the Tiergarten and the Landwehr Canal . Ships are being loaded, scenes from the port. This is followed by scenes from the old Gendarmenmarkt , from the Berlin subway , from Kurfürstendamm , the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church , and Alexanderplatz .
The film has been running continuously at least once a week in the Adria Filmtheater in Berlin since July 13, 1989 (as of March 2015)
Web links
- Symphony of a metropolis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Symphony of a cosmopolitan city in the lexicon of international film
- Filmography at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Endurance runner in the cinema. March 19, 2015, accessed March 19, 2015 .