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A Berlin Romance
Original Title: Eine Berliner Romanze
East Germany, 1956, 81 min., b/w
Director: Gerhard Klein

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Synopsis:
Mid-1950s Berlin, before the building of the Wall: Uschi, a salesgirl and aspiring fashion model from the East, is attracted to Hans, from the West, but also loves the bright shop windows in his part of the city. The flashiness of this new world soon vanishes into reality, however, when Hans loses his job. Inspired by Italian neo-realism and shot on location in East and West Berlin, this cross-border romance precisely depicts daily life in the divided city and is now considered one of the best and most accurate portrayals of the Cold War Berlin youth scene during the 1950s. The film’s frank images of youthful dreams and longings found little support among East German officials, who thought it encouraged East German young people to search for adventure in West Germany. A Berlin Romance is one of a series of “Berlin Films” made by Klein and Kohlhaase.

Press Comments:
Official Selection, 1991 & 2006 Berlin International Film Festival

Combining Kohlhaase's vivid screenplays with Klein's fascination with re-creating the textures of daily life. This is today regarded as among the most definitive records of postwar Berlin. - Variety

A sociological and documentary staging of the urban scene. - German Historical Museum, Berlin

The black-and-white cinematography, with its carefully composed chiaroscuro, is striking and convincing. … Even the smell of Berlin seems to have been captured. - Horst Claus, DEFA: East German Cinema 1946-1992

The film provides a fascinating portrait of life in the modern metropolis. - Leonie Naughton, film historian

[A film] by the most significant living German screenwriter. - Variety


Crew:
Cinematography: Wolf Göthe
Music: Günter Klück
Editor: Ursula Kahlbaum
Producer: Hans-Joachim Schoeppe
Dramaturge: Lil Kahler
Screenplay: Wolfgang Kohlhaase

 


Cast:
Annekathrin Bürger, Ulrich Thein, Uwe-Jens Pape, Erika Dunkelmann,
Erich Franz, Marga Legal, Eckart Friedrichson, Günter Großsteinbeck, Horst Kube, Paul Pfingst




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