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Cinema favorites: The ten best Berlin films
In the new issue of film magazine CINEMA favorites Berlin stands in the focus. We present our selection of the best films about Germany’s old and new capital.
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10: people on Sunday
A more sceptical view: The Mannequin Annie (Annie Schreyer) would rather spend Sundays at home. Your friends can also have fun at the Wannsee. Berlin and its surroundings is the main actor in “people on Sunday”, a Mix of documentary and feature film from 1930. On the Director’s chair this iconic, early in the Berlin film Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer were sitting.
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# 9: Cabaret
An American, Bob Fosse turned his famous Berlin Film Musical “Cabaret” in 1972, in Berlin and in Munich! While in West Berlin, many of the exterior shots were filmed the interior shots in the Munich Studios. The action of the atmospheric Berlin film plays in the year 1931 and focuses on the looming Nazism. It is eight Oscars.
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Seat 8: The murderers are among us
As the first German Film after the end of the Second world war, Wolfgang Staudte, 1946, and directed “The murderers are among us”. Was filmed in Berlin Studios and to numerous original locations of the destroyed city. With “The murderers are among us” was established, the term “rubble film”. The DEFA production was premiered in October ’46 in fact, the Soviets occupied the city-sector.
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Platz 7: One, Two, Three
Spectacular is the circumstances with Billy Wilder, 1961 “One, Two, Three” had to beat. Hollywood Veteran Wilder wanted to stage his Film against the Backdrop of a divided, but largely permeable to the city. During filming, the wall was built. At the Brandenburg gate could not be turned, the gate was reconstructed in Munich-consuming.
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Seat 6: Bridge of Spies
Also in the high phase of the Cold war, America plays-German Co-production “Bridge of Spies” by Star Director Steven Spielberg. The multiple Oscar winner turned his Berlin-Film two years ago at the original locations in the German capital. In addition to the Glienicke bridge, a famous Exchange agent, moved Spielberg, of course, the Berlin wall into the picture.
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Seat 5: Berlin is in Germany
An underdog story from the heart of Berlin told Hannes Stöhr, 2001, in his debut “Berlin is in Germany”. The Clou: Martin Schulz (Jörg Schüttauf) plays a former citizens of the GDR, the commencement of his prison sentence to the times of the GDR. Now he comes free – the fall of the Berlin wall and the re-United Germany, he knows only from television. Many atmospheric Berlin-pics!
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Course 4: summer on the balcony
His social Comedy “summer on the balcony” turned film Director Andreas Dresen in 2004, especially in the district of “Prenzlauer Berg”. In focus: the two women, Katrin and Nike (Inka Friedrich/Nadja Uhl), whose friendship through acquaintance with an easy-going truck driver is put to the test. Quaint Berlin’s local color in the cinema the audience well.
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Seat 3: Oh Boy
A lot of unconventional Berlin-the atmosphere conjured by Jan-Ole Gerster, 2012, in his debut film “Oh Boy” to the canvas. The story of the young, melancholy Drifters Niko Fischer (Tom Schilling) is staged with a feeling for the poetic shades. A film school graduation film, was showered with awards. Among other things, Gerster’s Berlin-Film got six “German film awards”.
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2nd Place: Victoria
Berlin’s sense of life of young people brought in 2015 with Sebastian Schipper to the cinema. “Victoria” is made up of a handful of friends spend a night in a Berlin Club, and then in a swirl of unforeseen events. The special feature of Schippers movie: “Victoria” was shot in a single setting. The result is 140 minutes of authentic Berlin Feeling.
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1st place: The sky over Berlin
The ultimate Berlin movie with the most beautiful Black-and-White shots of the city turned up in 1987, Director Wim Wenders. “The sky over Berlin” tells the story of the two angels Damiel and Cassiel (Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander) who watch the lives of the people in the divided city from the distance and near. The French camera man, Henri Alekan created a fantastic, never-before-seen images of Berlin.
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10: people on Sunday
A more sceptical view: The Mannequin Annie (Annie Schreyer) would rather spend Sundays at home. Your friends can also have fun at the Wannsee. Berlin and its surroundings is the main actor in “people on Sunday”, a Mix of documentary and feature film from 1930. On the Director’s chair this iconic, early in the Berlin film Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer were sitting.
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# 9: Cabaret
An American, Bob Fosse turned his famous Berlin Film Musical “Cabaret” in 1972, in Berlin and in Munich! While in West Berlin, many of the exterior shots were filmed the interior shots in the Munich Studios. The action of the atmospheric Berlin film plays in the year 1931 and focuses on the looming Nazism. It is eight Oscars.
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Seat 8: The murderers are among us
As the first German Film after the end of the Second world war, Wolfgang Staudte, 1946, and directed “The murderers are among us”. Was filmed in Berlin Studios and to numerous original locations of the destroyed city. With “The murderers are among us” was established, the term “rubble film”. The DEFA production was premiered in October ’46 in fact, the Soviets occupied the city-sector.
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Platz 7: One, Two, Three
Spectacular is the circumstances with Billy Wilder, 1961 “One, Two, Three” had to beat. Hollywood Veteran Wilder wanted to stage his Film against the Backdrop of a divided, but largely permeable to the city. During filming, the wall was built. At the Brandenburg gate could not be turned, the gate was reconstructed in Munich-consuming.
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Seat 6: Bridge of Spies
Also in the high phase of the Cold war, America plays-German Co-production “Bridge of Spies” by Star Director Steven Spielberg. The multiple Oscar winner turned his Berlin-Film two years ago at the original locations in the German capital. In addition to the Glienicke bridge, a famous Exchange agent, moved Spielberg, of course, the Berlin wall into the picture.
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Seat 5: Berlin is in Germany
An underdog story from the heart of Berlin told Hannes Stöhr, 2001, in his debut “Berlin is in Germany”. The Clou: Martin Schulz (Jörg Schüttauf) plays a former citizens of the GDR, the commencement of his prison sentence to the times of the GDR. Now he comes free – the fall of the Berlin wall and the re-United Germany, he knows only from television. Many atmospheric Berlin-pics!
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Course 4: summer on the balcony
His social Comedy “summer on the balcony” turned film Director Andreas Dresen in 2004, especially in the district of “Prenzlauer Berg”. In focus: the two women, Katrin and Nike (Inka Friedrich/Nadja Uhl), whose friendship through acquaintance with an easy-going truck driver is put to the test. Quaint Berlin’s local color in the cinema the audience well.
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Seat 3: Oh Boy
A lot of unconventional Berlin-the atmosphere conjured by Jan-Ole Gerster, 2012, in his debut film “Oh Boy” to the canvas. The story of the young, melancholy Drifters Niko Fischer (Tom Schilling) is staged with a feeling for the poetic shades. A film school graduation film, was showered with awards. Among other things, Gerster’s Berlin-Film got six “German film awards”.
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2nd Place: Victoria
Berlin’s sense of life of young people brought in 2015 with Sebastian Schipper to the cinema. “Victoria” is made up of a handful of friends spend a night in a Berlin Club, and then in a swirl of unforeseen events. The special feature of Schippers movie: “Victoria” was shot in a single setting. The result is 140 minutes of authentic Berlin Feeling.
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1st place: The sky over Berlin
The ultimate Berlin movie with the most beautiful Black-and-White shots of the city turned up in 1987, Director Wim Wenders. “The sky over Berlin” tells the story of the two angels Damiel and Cassiel (Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander) who watch the lives of the people in the divided city from the distance and near. The French camera man, Henri Alekan created a fantastic, never-before-seen images of Berlin.
Berlin is the ideal city for film stories. Like no other she has experienced tremendous upheaval and stand in the center of events, which determine our lives today.
Berlin developed into the legendary twenties, a rendezvous for artists from all over Europe. Berlin is also the centre for Hitler’s national socialist fantasies of Omnipotence, which will trigger a world war, and the division of Germany and Europe. Berlin, the front city of the Cold war and the place where the wall, the East and West, separates, 1961 is to be built, and in 1989 finally drops. Today, Berlin is considered to be the epicenter of the new Coolness and a magnet for Hipsters from all over the world, even if the story throws sometimes even dark shadow.
In other words, Berlin is the ultimate film set for stories in which the Private meets the Political, where individual decisions have far-reaching consequences.
We have been looking for in Berlin movies, the consequences of heavy and risers show of the wild twenties up to the harbingers of impending Nazism, from the Cold war through the fall of the Berlin wall to the Berlin of today. We have selected films that can only play in Berlin, because the city itself plays a major role.
Because of this all the time policy was made, may lack political films like comedies and private dramas – stories that share the life in the city of Kreuzberg, Berlin Mitte or in Prenzlauer Berg tell. Films about ordinary Berliners, their sometimes sarcastic sense of Humor and will to Survive were still resisting all things Horror and Chaos. Movies, the the life and politics of Berlin in the last 100 years to reflect.
As with the other CINEMA favorites, the selection of Berlin films is a very personal: our cinematic love letter to Berlin.
Our selection of the 10 best Berlin films in moving pictures you can) in the current issue of cinema (from 12.5. see.