With its intermittent and rigorous narrative, Warsaw Bridge is a reflection on contemporary ways of narrating memory and history through audiovisual practices. This meta-narrative about three friends—a professor, a conductor, and a writer—is set in motion through the device of the writer’s award-winning book, a memoir of his composer friend, who emigrated to Spain from prewar Germany and has met a mysterious death. In Portabella’s film, the Warsaw Bridge—a real bridge connecting the former East and West Berlin—becomes a metaphor for a personal trip into the history of a nation that remains as obscure to the author as the world on the opposite side of the bridge. The protagonists analyze European society and culture through reflection on aesthetic practices, the status of the image, memory, history, and politics after the fall of the Wall.