Berlin, Symphony of a Great City
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DVD-R Details
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: March 14, 2017
- Originally Released: 1927
- Label: Flicker Alley
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Walther Ruttmann | |
Story by | Carl Mayer | |
Produced by | Karl Freund |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B --
Outdated but still fine as an historical curio.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3.5/4 --
This is pure cinema, a work of visual rapture that often feels like stepping into a time machine, inviting us into a world long since past.
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From the Front Row
More of a montage of images than an actual movie, this is a deeply fascinating documentary.
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Film4
It remains a unique and sometimes inspired exercise in style for its own sake.
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Chicago Reader
A textbook classic to which the years have not been kind.
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Time Out
Description by OLDIES.com:
At once an invaluable photographic record of life in Weimer Berlin and a timeless demonstration of the cinemas ability to enthrall on a purely visceral level, Berlin, Symphony of a Great City offers a kaleidoscopic view of a single day in the life of a bustling metropolis. Carl Mayer, influenced by the naturalistic Kammerspiel movement, envisioned a melody of pictures sprung from daily reality instead of the stylized artificiality of the studio-bound expressionist film. Following Mayer's rough outline, photographer Karl Freund deployed a team of cameramen to explore the avenues, alleyways and factories of Berlin and secure hidden-camera glimpses of the people and machinery that provide the city with its constant motion. The many hours of footage were then edited into a series of five acts, like movements of a symphony, by Walther Ruttmann as a continuation of his experiments with abstract motion. Berlin defined the formula of the city symphony film and according to John Grierson - the filmmaker/critic who coined the term documentary - no film has been more influential, more imitated.
Also included is Opus I. A rare example of the German avant-garde cinema known as Absoluter Film, Walther Ruttmann's hand-colored Opus I is an exploration of the geometry of movement within the frame and the sensory effect these abstract shapes evoke as they swell, streak and swim across the screen.
Also included is Opus I. A rare example of the German avant-garde cinema known as Absoluter Film, Walther Ruttmann's hand-colored Opus I is an exploration of the geometry of movement within the frame and the sensory effect these abstract shapes evoke as they swell, streak and swim across the screen.
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- Sales Rank: 41,100
- UPC: 889290092014
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