his work. for. twenty. eight you're smart t.v. smarter d.w. first want to. find out more. comes more. hello and welcome to kino coming to you as always from the german capital in today we're at the city's landmark running for a special edition on the sell you lloyd city in on film the roaring twenty's the nazi era the cold war the fall of the berlin wall the cooling off today but lin has

often been at the cutting edge of history and this is inspired numerous movies this is our definitive list the top ten movies so hold on sights and join us for a cinematic roller coaster ride through palin's turbulence past. when one and a number of places both motoring and the bustling metropolis where young this film is a declaration of love twenty four hours in the life of the city from saturday to sunday evening. the script is written by the city itself with a little help from legendary film director billy wilder. five

young people meet up at the berlin like. they fall in love and they dream five of palin's four million inhabitants. number ten is a film in which palin and. of the stars. nineteen thirty one palin is dancing on the edge of the volcano. the city is a place of freedom and loose morals this is the ballin of cabaret the musical picks up because an english writer arrives in the city and meets irrepressible don't sorry. i thought we both. have this strange mystical feeling about. balinese cosmopolitan it attracts people who are happy that here

they can just be themselves but the storm clouds are gathering few cities have been shaped by history in quite the way that burden has the party will soon be over and the nazis will sweep the palace. the darkest chapter in the city's history is about to begin. fifteen years on world war two is over and berlin lies in ruins a new beginning for the city and for cinema a holocaust survivor returns from a concentration camp. three needs. touched she has to share her accommodation with a bit war veteran. a city in trauma it's not just the victims of war who return which is the

perpetrators of back to. perception what you have to tune it just a why not read side of. the theme here is crime and punishment the law and justice. the great in berlin in one nine hundred sixty one the hollywood director was back in town to make a political fuss about the divided frontier city by burning and cold war comedy coca-cola wants to use berlin as a staging post to conquer the eastern territories behind the iron curtain that made all of those you're going to. not. any means are justified when it comes to getting the russians on board. but while the film was being shorts communist east germany erected the pearl in wall

the cold war had taken a serious turn spell in tragedy for many the clash of ideologies was no longer a laughing matter. the right film at the wrong time and in the wrong place decades later it was rediscovered and became a cult hit. more than half a century after while do another hollywood director and another cold war drama in berlin when i shot the scenes we've built a lot of the war we've built you know probably a good three hundred yards of the war. i looked at the war and i just said did this really happen and american lawyer is in the divided city to negotiate an agent swap with the soviet union and east germany communists the linen is a place of heightened political tensions the drama is based on a true story divided berlin had more than its fair share of spying is the bridge was the gateway to the west the film perfectly captures the menacing atmosphere of

the time. when the gate. these stones marked the exact position of the hated bird. in war that divided the city for almost thirty years when it fell it was the end of an era and affected the lives of all those who lived through it's time now to look at how the collapse of communism and life in the reunited city has been depicted in the best berlin movies of more recent times. on the ninth of november one thousand nine hundred eighty nine the berlin wall fell. our number five is the tale of a billionaire who misses the dramatic events because he's imprisoned when he comes out the east german state he grew up in no longer exists the city has changed.

because it has become. a new era has begun the film shows the shock of the new and the fears that this triggers that's why all of them because. now it's also true. that you know what so i thought of. a new beginning not only for the city. thousand and six it's just another summer in berlin time for more personal stories and reasons film is an intimate portrait of two women's friendship they spend a lot of time on the balcony. if. you could fix it messy fashion. as was mine. but lynn is now a single city and finding the right man is a tough task. strong

emotions and hard times in the first decade of the new millennium the situation is desperate but not serious. number three and we've almost arrived in the present the berlin of the day the meanderings of a city struck in search of a symbol cup of coffee. to go yeah. i got. the monkey. just scraping by in berlin can be a full time job the low budget a coffee in berlin one germany's top movie on a melancholy and poetic portrait of the city and its quirky inhabitants.

in two thousand and fifteen another berlin film won the german film price number two is victoria. movie which is just one single shot taking us through the night. so we can show you if you want to follow. the burning guys meet a spanish girl in a club what starts out as an adventure soon becomes a nightmare after a bank robbery they're on the run berlin is wild and chaotic picture is a mesmerizing hypnotic tour de force. few directors have succeeded in creating a story that is timeless and universal despite it being set at a very specific moment in history the inventors is one of them he created a movie monument to the divided beilin and ensured that the city would forever be

associated with angels our number one pearl in movie and a location that has changed beyond recognition. director of inventers at potsdamer platz revisiting one of the main locations for his legendary berlin opus wings of desire. there are angels in the city watching over the people below listening to. the west of the city closed in behind the wall frozen in low intensity conflict a bizarre standoff that had already lasted decades. we shot in the winter of one thousand nine hundred six at that time the war was as impermeable as it ever would be but angels could walk right through it.

the angels see into the homes and hearts of palin's trouble didn't have a chance they hear the endless streams of the thoughts. and. wings of desire is the ultimate berlin film in which all the shadows of the past meet up infused with the city's ultimate love of life. rest assured cinematic journey will continue there are many more stories waiting to be told and. so there you have it our personal choice the top ten burden movies perhaps you disagree drop us

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