Film & Screen
From Metropolis and the Babelsberg studios to Wings of Desire, Run Lola Run, the Berlinale and Babylon Berlin — the city on screen.
Part of Berlin
18 moments in this segment.
- — Babelsberg Studios. The oldest large-scale film studio in the world (1912) — UFA's dream factory just outside Berlin.
- — Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis. Walther Ruttmann's 1927 city-symphony — a day in the life of Weimar Berlin in pure montage.
- — People on Sunday. The 1930 docu-fiction of Berliners at the Wannsee lakes — made by Siodmak, Wilder, Zinnemann before Hollywood.
- — The Berlinale. The Berlin International Film Festival and its Golden Bear — one of the world's great cinema gatherings since 1951.
- — Cabaret. Bob Fosse's 1972 film of decadent Weimar Berlin — Liza Minnelli, the Kit Kat Club, the gathering dark.
- — Good Bye, Lenin!. The 2003 tragicomedy of a son faking that the GDR never fell to spare his ailing mother.
- — The Lives of Others. The 2006 Oscar-winning drama of a Stasi officer who comes to protect the man he is surveilling.
- — Berlin Alexanderplatz. Fassbinder's monumental 1980 TV adaptation of Döblin's Weimar-Berlin novel — fifteen and a half hours.
- — Nosferatu. Murnau's 1922 vampire — German expressionism's eerie masterpiece, made in the Weimar years.
- — Oh Boy (A Coffee in Berlin). The 2012 black-and-white drift through a day in hipster Berlin — a deadpan love letter to the city.
- — Victoria. Sebastian Schipper's 2015 thriller filmed in a single unbroken 138-minute take across nighttime Berlin.
- — Metropolis. Fritz Lang's 1927 sci-fi epic shot at Babelsberg — the most expensive silent film ever made, a Weimar landmark.
- — Babylon Berlin. The lavish 2017 series of Weimar-era crime and cabaret — Germany's most expensive TV production.
- — Kleo. Netflix's revenge thriller about an ex-Stasi assassin set loose in the chaos of post-Wall Berlin.
- — Babylon Berlin (Season 4). The lavish Weimar-era crime series returns — 1930s Berlin sliding toward the abyss, rendered in feverish detail.
- — Wings of Desire. Wim Wenders' 1987 angels over a still-divided Berlin — black-and-white, longing, the library and the sky.
- — Berlinale Golden Bear 2023. Nicolas Philibert's gentle documentary 'Sur l'Adamant' takes the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival.
- — Run Lola Run. Tom Tykwer's 1998 kinetic blast through Berlin — red hair, techno, three runs against the clock.
