With his thrilling and virtuoso scoring of the film classic, Stephan von Bothmer not only radically redefines piano music but also resurrects Berlin of the 1920s: intoxicating and overwhelming, a dance on a volcano. And a magnificent hymn to the city of Berlin.
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Stephan Graf v. Bothmer: Berlin. Die Sinfonie der Großstadt
Rich and poor, commerce and mercenary love, excess and labor, people and machines stand side by side. Far removed from all conventions of 1920s feature films, "Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis" is simultaneously documentary, avant-garde, experiment, and vision.
The camera sees morning rolls on a baking tray and the glowing iron of the steelworks, shows people's feet striding to work, and loses itself in the traffic at Potsdamer Platz until the machines stop in the evening and neon signs cast their light on shopping streets, revues, theaters, and the evening gambling. [Walther Ruttmann, Germany 1927]
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Stephan Graf v. Bothmer
Dates
October 2025
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