Symphonie einer Weltstadt

1950
1h 27m

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This film seeks to pass itself off as a positive and definitive history of the city of Berlin before the outbreak of World War Two. It is heavily influenced by the bent of the National Socia... Read allThis film seeks to pass itself off as a positive and definitive history of the city of Berlin before the outbreak of World War Two. It is heavily influenced by the bent of the National Socialist party/Nazi Party ideology and seeks to idealize the city in such a way that is in fur... Read allThis film seeks to pass itself off as a positive and definitive history of the city of Berlin before the outbreak of World War Two. It is heavily influenced by the bent of the National Socialist party/Nazi Party ideology and seeks to idealize the city in such a way that is in furtherance of the party's view of itself, and it inconsistent, in many aspects, with the rea... Read all

Director
- Leo de Laforgue
Writers
- Leo de Laforgue
- Friedrich Luft
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6.2/10

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Director
- Leo de Laforgue
Writers
- Leo de Laforgue
- Friedrich Luft
Stars

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A major disappointment!

Those of you hoping to get real insight into the old Berlin will be as disappointed as I was after trying to watch this long and boring film! I even left before the end, something I rarely do, because I was fed up with watching the birds, the zoo animals and the children swimming, while getting no new information about a great city. I wanted to see the architecture before the massive destruction of WW2 and got very little of it. The film was shot in the '50s, so they could have contrasted the before and after periods of important monuments and buildings, but they failed to do this.

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Vital glimpse of Pre-Hitler Berlin

This documentary is stunning and mysterious. It appears to have been made before 1934. Everything looks so good. So right. If I were to judge from this film, early 1930's Germany had no reason to welcome a brute like Hitler.

This must have been made in some sweet spot in the early 30's, before the prosperity of the 1920's had given way to the worldwide depression.

As I view the film, I want to speak to the people, "Beware! Evil is ahead!".

I see no evidence of the "shame" or "unhappiness" attributed to pre-Hitler Germany. I have read that Berlin voters did not support Hitler's candidacy. Based on this film, this makes sense. They had little to complain about.