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A Berlin Romance (1956)

A Berlin Romance poster
Original title
Eine Berliner Romanze
Directed by
Gerhard Klein
Genre
drama film, romance film
Country
German Democratic Republic, Germany
Runtime
1h 20m
Rated
0
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A love story between two young people living in divided Berlin after World War II. They navigate everyday life and the changes in their city and in themselves.

bittersweetobservationalgroundedmelancholicrestrainedtendercity-ladeneveryday life

What happens

A Berlin Romance (German: Eine Berliner Romanze) is a 1956 East German neo-realist romantic drama film about youth urban life in the divided city of Berlin, directed by Gerhard Klein. It was produced by the DEFA film company. It stars Annekathrin Bürger, Ulrich Thein and Uwe-Jens Pape. The script was written by Wolfgang Kohlhaase with a score composed by Günter Klück. The film was the second collaboration between Klein and Kohlhaase; the first was Alarm in the Circus (Alarm im Zirkus), released in 1954 and third came in 1957 with Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser. These films were noted for their strong criticism of consumer culture in Berlin after World War II and the Americanization of the capital and are amongst DEFA's best known films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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