Item Details
Berlin, die Symphonie der Grossstadt [videorecording]
ein Fox-Europa Film ; ein Film by Walther Ruttmann ; Leitung, Karl Freund.
- Format
- DVD; Video
- Summary
- A cross section of life in Berlin from dawn to midnight on a late spring day. Uses montage, cutting, and editing to capture the pulse and tempo of this city.
- Director
- Walther Ruttmann; Timothy Brock
- Release Date
- 1927
- Run Time
- 72 min.
- Rating
- Not rated.
- Notes
- Videodisc release of a 1927 silent motion picture.
- Introductory titles in German ; no dialogue or narration ; with added orchestral accompaniment.
- Includes the short film Lustspiel: Opus 1 (10 min.) made by Ruttmann in 1922.
- Variant title
- Title on disc label and container:
- Berlin, symphony of a great city
- dditional title on disc label:
- Opus 1
- Related title
- Lustspiel: Opus 1.
- Series
- Blackhawk Films collection
- Series statement
- Blackhawk Films collection
- Credits
- Screenplay, Walther Ruttmann, Karl Freund from an idea by Carl Meyer ; photography, Reimar Kuntze, Robert Baberske, Laszlo Schäffer ; music composed & conducted by Timothy Brock ; performed by Olympia Chamber Orchestra. Opus 1: filmmaker, Walther Ruttmann ; music by Max Butting (1922), adapted and directed by Timothy Brock.
- Published
- Chatsworth, CA :Distributed by Image Entertainment,c1999.
- Publisher no.
- ID4673DSDVD Image Entertainment
- Related resources
- Internet Movie Database Summary and Reviews
- Description
- 1 videodisc (72 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD.
- Technical details
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