Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1928)
1928 · Feature film · 69 min · dir. Walter Ruttmann
- Documentary
Synopsis
Preceding Dziga Vertov's Chelovek s kino-apparatom (1929), and before Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Walter Ruttmann's urban symphony of Berlin is a semi-documentary in five acts. Employing an enthralling visual rhythm, seamless jump-cuts, double-exposures, and a sense of perpetual motion, this non-narrative love-letter to the bustling German capital documents a single day in the life of Berlin, from sunrise until late at night, and everything in between. Against the backdrop of ceaseless…
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Details
- Director
- Walter Ruttmann
- Writer
- Walter Ruttmann
- Composer
- Edmund Meisel
- Cinematography
- Robert Baberske
- Studio
- Deutsche Vereinsfilm AG, Fox Europa Produktion
- Released
- 1927-09-23
- Original title
- Berlin, die Symphonie der Großstadt
- Running time
- 69 minutes
Cast & crew
Walter Ruttmann Director
Paul von Hindenburg
