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Berlin Babylon

Screening on Film
Directed by Hubertus Siegert.
Germany, 2001, 35mm, color, 88 min.
German with English subtitles.
Print source: Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes

After the wall came down a radical reconstruction of the city core was undertaken in an orgy of drama of real estate, money and power. Berlin Babylon observes prominent architects, developers, politicians and urban planners at work as first time director Hubertus Siegert “visually ponders the nature of a cityscape and its more or less permanent state of collapse and rehabilitation” (Michael Atkinson).

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