List of Films Set in Berlin
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LisListt of ffilmsilms sesett in Berlin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is a list of films whose setting is Berlin, Germany. Contents 1 1920s 2 1930s 3 1940s 4 1950s 5 1960s 6 1970s The world city Berlin is setting and filming location of 7 1980s numerous movies since the beginnings of the silent film 8 1990s era. 9 2000s 10 2010s 11 See also 1920s 1922 Dr. Mabuse the Gambler ( ( Dr Dr.. Mabuse, dederr SpielSpieler er ), 1922 - first (silent) film about the character Doctor Mabuse from the novels of Norbert Jacques, by Fritz Lang. 1924 The Last Laugh ( ( Der Letzte Mann), 1924 - The aging doorman at a Berlin hotel is demoted to washroom attendant but gets the last laugh, by F.W. Murnau. 1925 Varieté ( (Variety), 1925 - Circus melodrama set in Berlin, with the circus scenes in the Berlin Wintergarten, by EwEwalaldd AnAndrédré DDuupontpont.. Slums of Berlin ( ( Di Diee Verrufenen), 1925 - an engineer in Berlin is released from prison, but his father throws him out, his fiancée left him and there is no chance to find work. Directed by Gerhard Lamprecht. 1926 Di Diee letzte DrDroschkeoschke vvonon BeBerlirlinn, 1926 - showing the life of an old coachman in Berlin still driving the droshky during the time when the automobile arises. Directed by Carl Boese. 1927 Ber Berlin:lin: Symphony of a GGreatreat City ( ( Ber Berlin:lin: DiDiee Sinfonie der GroßsGroßstadt tadt ), 1927 - Expressionist documentary film of 1920s Berlin by Walter Ruttmann. Metropolis, 1927 - Berlin-inspired futuristic classic by Fritz Lang. 1928 Refuge ( ( Zuflucht ), 1928 - a lonely and tired man comes home after several years abroad, lives with a market-woman in Berlin and starts working for the Berlin U-Bahn. Directed by Carl Froelich. 1929 Asphalt , 1929 - The Berlin underworld touches a policeman's life, Film Noir classic by Joe May. Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück , 1929 - depicts the cruelty of poverty in Wedding district and Communism as a rescuing force that reaches a mother and her grandchild too late. Directed by Phil Jutzi. 1930s 1930 People on Sunday ( ( Menschen am SonntSonntag ag ), 1930 - Avant-garde look at daily life in Berlin, screenplay by Billy Wilder and Curt Siodmak. Symphonie einer WelWeltsttstadt adt ( ( Be Berlirlinn - WWieie es war ), 1930 - documentary view of Berlin by Leo de Laforgue. First showed in 1950. Di Diee drei von der TankTankstellestelle, 1930 - three friends are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station in Berlin. Then they all fall in love with the same girl. Directed by Wilhelm Thiele. Cyankali, 1930 - a poor female office employee in Berlin gets pregnant, but abortion is not allowed in the Weimar Republic. So she goes to a quack doctor who applies toxic potassium cyanide to her. Directed by Hans Tintner. 1931 Emil and the Detectives ( ( Emil und die DDeteketektivtivee), 1931 - Adventure film based on the novel Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner. Director: Gerhard Lamprecht. M , 1931 - Berlin thriller by Fritz Lang; beginnings of film noir and the endings of expressionism. Ber Berlin-lin-AlexanderplatzAlexanderplatz, 1931 - First film adaption of the novel Berlin Alexanderplatz from Alfred Döblin, directed by Phil Jutzi. Der Hauptmann vvonon Köpenick , 1931 - Directed by Richard Oswald and based upon the play The Captain of Köpenick by Carl Zuckmayer. The play was based on the true story of Wilhelm Voigt. Look Lookinging for HiHiss MurMurderer derer ( ( Der Mann, der sseineneinen MMörderörder sucsucht ht ), 1931 - a man in Berlin plunged in debt does not succeed in committing suicide and has to hire a murderer to kill him within twelve hours. But in the same night he falls in love with a girl who wants to stop the appointed killer. Directed by Robert Siodmak. 1932 Grand Hotel , 1932 - Nothing ever happens at the Grand Hotel. Directed by Edmund Goulding. Academy Award for Best Picture (1931–1932). Filmed in Hollywood. Kuhle Wampe, 1932 - about a working-class family in Berlin in 1931 where survival is difficult during the Great Depression. Directed by Slatan Dudow. 1933 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse ( ( Das Testament des DDr.r. Mabuse), 1933 - Berlin thriller by Fritz Lang. Tugboat M 17 ( (Schleppzug M 17 ), 1933 - the skipper of a tugboat on the river Havel falls for a female thie in Berlin and leaves his family for her. Directed by Heinrich George and Werner Hochbaum. 1936 Das Veilchen vom PotPotsdamersdamer Platz, 1936 - a flower girl working at Potsdamer Platz can resolve a financial deception. Directed by Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla. 1937 Charlie Chan at the Olympics, 1937 - Charlie Chan trails spies to Berlin during the 1936 Summer Olympics. Starring Warner Oland. Gleisdreieck , 1937 - At Gleisdreieck station a woman wants to throw herself under a subway train but gets saved by a railway official. By Robert A. Stemmle. 1938 Olympia (Parts 1 & 2), 1938 - Strikingly aesthetic propaganda by Leni Riefenstahl. The Stars Shine ( ( Es leuchten die Sterne), 1938 - musical revue about a young secretary who leaves the country and travels to Berlin to seek work as an actress. Directed by Hans H. Zerlett. 1939 Silvesternacht am Alexanderplatz, 1939 - Telling the stories of different people on New Year's Eve around AlexAlexanderplatzanderplatz.. DiDirectedrected by RichRichardard SchneiSchneider-der-Edenkoben.Edenkoben. 1940s 1941 Der Gasmann, 1941 - a gas meter reader in Berlin during World War II is suspected of being a foreign spy. Directed by Carl Froelich. 1942 Two in a Big City ( ( Zwei in eieinerner großen Stadt ), 1942 - A sergeant from the Wehrmacht and a nurse (working at the llocalocal Red CroCrossss station) meet accidentalaccidentalllyy at FFririedrichstraßeedrichstraße station and spspendend oonene day together in Berlin. Directed by Volker von Collande. 1943 Ich vertraue dir meine FrFrauau an, 1943 - a man asks a friend to keep a jealous watch over his wife in Berlin during a business trip with his secretary what causes several adventures for the caring friend. Directed by Kurt Hoffmann. 1944 Under tthehe BridgeBridgess ( (Unter den Brücken), 1944/45 - Two men and a woman shipping on the river Havel shortly before Berlin gets totally destroyed. Directed by Helmut Käutner. 1945 Hotel BBerlierlinn, 1945 - near the close of World War II, a member of the German underground escapes from the Gestapo and takes shelter at Hotel Berlin. Directed by Peter Godfrey. Fall of BeBerlirlinn – 1945, 1945 - Soviet propaganda documentary film about the Battle of Berlin. Footage of the actual battle is shown, as the Red Army fights the Nazis, building by building. The assault on the Reichstag ends with the famous photograph, raising the Red Flag over the Reichstag. Directed by Yuli Raizman and Yelizaveta Svilova. 1946 Murdere Murderersrs Among Us ( ( Di Diee Mörder sind unter uns), 1946 - The first post-WWII Trümmerfilm. Directed by WolWolffgaganngg StauStaudte.dte. Irgendwo in BBerlierlinn, 1946 - Drama about children in post-war Berlin. Directed by Gerhard Lamprecht. 1947 ...and the Sky AbovAbovee Us ( (...und über uns der Himmel ), 1947 - A man comes home after World War II into destroyed Berlin and starts working as a black market trader. With Hans Albers, directed by Josef von Báky. Raz Razziazia, 1947 - crime thriller about black market traders in Berlin. A spy forewarns everybody before the pol poliicece arriarrivevess anandd a polpoliicece comcommmiissarssar ggetsets mmuurdered.rdered. DDiirecterectedd by WernWernerer KlKliinnggller.er. 1948 A Foreign AffAffair air , 1948 - Romantic comedy set in Berlin during the Allied occupation; stars Jean Arthur and Marlene Dietrich; directed by Billy Wilder. Ber Berlinerliner BalBalladelade, 1948 - Daily life of a veteran home from the war. Director Robert A. Stemmle. Ber Berlinlin Express, 1948 - Murder mystery with scenes from bombed-out Frankfurt and Berlin, directed by JacqJacquesues TourneuTourneur.r. Germany Year Zero, 1948 - Filmed in German in the ruins of the bombed-out city of Berlin, then dubbed into Italian (with subtitles). A masterpiece of neo-realism, by Roberto Rossellini. 1949 Unser täglich Brot , 1949 - about the difficult life of an extended family in destroyed Berlin in 1946. Directed by Slatan Dudow. Rotation, 1949 - showing the life of a mechanic in Berlin between 1920 and 1945. During the Third Reich, as a member of the Nazi Party, he aids a resistance group in printing anti-war propaganda and is finally turned into the authorities by his own son who is a frenetic member of the Hitler Youth. Directed by Wolfgang Staudte. The Beaverskin ( ( Di Diee BBuntkuntkarierariertenten), 1949 - the fate of a typical working-class family in Berlin between 1883 and 1949 facing child labour, trade union engagement, war, depression, unemployment and the rise and fall of Nazism. Directed by Kurt Maetzig. 1950s 1950 The Fall of Berlin, 1, 1950950 - two-two-partpart SoSovivietet pproparopagangandistidisticc feature fifillmm.. The ppllotot revolrevolvesves around the history of the Great Patriotic War and the Battle of Berlin, focusing on the role that Joseph Stalin played in the events. Directed by Mikheil Chiaureli. The Big Lift , 1950 - Stars Montgomery Clift in the Berlin Air Lift. Film by George Seaton. 1952 Story of A Young Couple ( ( Roman eieinerner jungen Ehe), 1952 - a young married couple - both actors - work in Cold War Berlin. She is on location in East Berlin, and he works at a theatre in West Berlin. As they hold more and more opposed views on politics, art and society, their marriage is in danger of breaking up. Directed by Kurt Maetzig. Di Diee Spur führt nach BerlBerlinin, 1952 - Film noir about a young American lawyer who discovers a gang of counterfeiters in Berlin and gets hunted himself. By Frantisek Cáp. 1953 The Man Between, 1953 - Stars James Mason. Atmospheric East/West thriller filmed in bomb-torn Berlin. Directed by Carol Reed. No Way BBack ack ( (Weg ohne Umkehr ), 1953 - in 1945 a Red Army officer discovers a frightened girl huddled in a Berlin cellar.