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Berlin, Symphony of a Great City

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Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (1927)

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Reviews Counted:6

Fresh:5

Rotten:1

Average Rating:6.4/10

Runtime: 72 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: This orchestral film is a classic of Weimar cinema. A lyrical portrait of a bustling metropolis in late Spring begins with daybreak. Slowly the city awakens with signs of activity. Faithful... This orchestral film is a classic of Weimar cinema. A lyrical portrait of a bustling metropolis in late Spring begins with daybreak. Slowly the city awakens with signs of activity. Faithful commuters, morning delivery trucks and cross-town buses start to make their way through this urban center. Eventually, the city's a pulsating organism teeming with activity and moving to the rhythm of its own daily schedule. But as the day comes to an end, the city shuts down and goes to bed so that it may meet tomorrow morning anew. [More]

Director: Walther Ruttmann

Director: Walther Ruttmann

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Mar 30, 1999

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  • At once an invaluable photographic record of life in Weimar Berlin and a timeless demostration of the cinema's ability to enthrall on a purely visceral level, "Berlin, Symphony of a Great City" (1927, 62 min.) offers a kaleidoscopic view of a single day in the life of the bustling metropolis. Also included on this DVD is "Opus 1" (1922, 10 min.), a rare example of the German avant-garde cinema. Director Walther Ruttmann's hand-colored film is an exploration of the geometry of movement.
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    A textbook classic to which the years have not been kind.

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    10/23/07
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    More of a montage of images than an actual movie, this is a deeply fascinating documentary.

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    05/24/03
    Channel 4 Film

    It remains a unique and sometimes inspired exercise in style for its own sake.

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    Outdated but still fine as an historical curio.

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