Should you watch Berlin: Symphony of a Great City?
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Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
Documentary · 1927
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.
The sides of Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
- One day in Berlin, from dawn to night
- Trains, factories and crowded streets
- Silent black and white images cut to a rhythm
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City is good for you if…
- you like a city filmed like a machine, frame after frame.
- you want to see Berlin as it really looked in 1927.
- you want a silent film that's over in under seventy minutes.
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City is bad for you if…
- you find silent black and white films dated.
- you need people and a story to follow.
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