Special: BERLIN. DIE SINFONIE DER GROSSSTADT (BERLIN:SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY)

As a special we will again screen Walter Ruttmann's city symphony BERLIN. DIE SINFONIE DER GROSSSTADT (Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, Germany 1927, June 20, on the piano: Eunice Martins). The tableau of a day in the metropolis of Berlin offers fascinating insights into the living and working conditions of flourishing 1920s Berlin. The film is not only an impressive historical document but also a filmic experiment: a composition of movement and light. The film shows workers, clerks and schoolchildren, businessmen, mannequins, and beggars, automobiles, street-cars and fast trains, love, weddings, and death, a slaughterhouse, Wannsee, and the zoo, conveying the rhythm of a big city with all its contrasts.