01 Oct 1950
Symphonie einer Weltstadt
Documentary about the life in Berlin in 1941. The planned premier was stopped by the national party due to the damages and painful changes to the city that soon followed. It thus premiered in 1950.
Heimatkunde
Former "Titanic" satire magazine editor Martin Sonneborn takes an undercover trip around Berlin and discovers the East-German mentality and what is left of the socialist German Democratic Republic.
Top Billed Cast
Peter Bieringer Narrator (voice)
Martin Sonneborn Self
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