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Films featuring Berlin?

 
 
Ganesh
07:18 / 16.06.04
Xoc's booked a surprise weekend away in Berlin (which neither of us has visited before) and I'm planning a bit of a DVD-fest beforehand, to get into the mood. Other than Cabaret and Wim Wenders' stuff, can anyone recommend films set in Berlin and/or showing something of the city?

Preferally not featuring Bono, naturellement.
 
 
sleazenation
08:57 / 16.06.04
A funeral in Berlin? All that Harry Palmer goodness?
 
 
Jub
09:19 / 16.06.04
Wasn't Run Lola Run set in Berlin?

Also Wings of a Dove which was remade as City of Angels.
 
 
Grey Area
15:16 / 16.06.04
Lola Rennt was indeed set in Berlin...as were 300 other films in 1999 alone (according to this site. Other films you could try for are 'Sonnenallee', 'Good-Bye Lenin', 'Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser', 'Christiane F.', Ostkreuz, Julietta, Berlin is in Germany and (my favourite of the lot) Was Tun Wenn's Brennt?.

And apologies for the fact that the majority of the films are pretty dark, gritty things and that the sites are in German. The ones you would probably have the best chance of finding with either an English soundtrack or subtitles are Lola Rennt (of course), Was Tun Wenn's Brennt and Julietta.

This site has, in english, a searchable archive of German films. You'll probably find a few that are set in Berlin in here by searching for period between 1990 and 2004, as it's pretty much become the centre of German film production.
 
 
grant
19:26 / 16.06.04
For your own happiness, avoid cinema set in Berlin pre-reunification.

That is all.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
22:23 / 17.06.04
Jub, you're obviously beaming your thoughts into us telephathically since we came home with Run Lola Run and Wings of Desire from HMV the other day (plus the Blue Angel just because... ) Looked in vain for Berlin: Alexanderplatz on dvd.

Christiane F I remember well from its cinema release back in the seventies (no?) and I can't imagine voluntarily sitting through all that Germanic misery again. It does highlight the Bowie-in-Berlin potential for tourism.

I have tried to interest Elephant Head in some Fassbinder but I don't know how well that would stand up to the test of time.

I seem to remember enjoying Taxi Zum Klo many years ago for its depiction of Schwuldeutsch cottaging in style.

Only tomorrow to watch any of these films now and since G has no German, I hope he'll catch the vibe. I am working all day and will miss the dvd Fest probably. :-(
 
 
VonKobra,Scuttling&Slithering
10:15 / 25.06.04
SALON KITTY!!!
 
  
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