Berlin Culture

Berlin’s Cinescape: Urban and Cinematic Spaces

– Tracing East-West Dichotomies

by Dr. Kat Sark

Goodbye Lenin (Wolfgang Becker, 2003)

East Berlin: Karl-Marx Allee

Goodbye

Lenin

East Berlin:

Alexanderplatz

Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987)

West Berlin: Ku’damm, Potsdamer Platz, Anhalter

Bahnhof, Staatsbibliothek

Wings of Desire

West Berlin: Victory Column, (painted side of the) Wall

Far Away So Close (Wim Wenders, 1993)

East Berlin: Hackesche Höfe, Museumsinsel (Alte Nationalgalerie)

Far Away So Close

East Berlin: Brandenburger Tor, Alexanderplatz

The Airlift (Dror Zahavi, 2005)

West Berlin: Tempelhof

The Educators (Hans Weingartner, 2004) West Berlin: Grünewald

The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von

Donnersmarck, 2006)

East Berlin: Treptower Park, Soviet Memorial

The Lives of Others East Berlin: Normannenstrasse, Stasi

Archives

Summer at the Balcony

(Andreas Dresen, 2005)

East Berlin: Prenzlauerberg

Herr Lehmann (Leander

Haussmann, 2003)

West Berlin: Kreutzberg, Markthalle

Herr Lehmann

East Berlin: Alexanderplatz, Weltzeituhr, Fall

of the Wall

Berlin, Corner of Schönhauser (Gerhard Klein, 1957) East Berlin: Schönhauser Allee

One Two Three (Billy Wilder, 1961)

East Berlin: Brandenburger Tor, West Berlin: Victory Column

Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer, 1998)

East meets West: Oberbaumbrücke

Sonnenallee (Leander Haussmann, 1999)

East Berlin: Sonnenallee

Rosenstrasse

(Margarethe

von Trotta,

2003)

East Berlin:

Rosenstrasse

The Tunnel (Roland Suso Richter, 2001)

East meets West: Berlin Wall

The Legend of Paul and Paula (Heiner Carow,

1973) East Berlin: Singerstrasse

Other Berlin Films: