Divided in five main chapters, the film tells the story of one day in the life of Berlin, a modern city full of life, technology and people moving fast. It starts with a train entering the city from the countryside in the early morning and follows the blue collars going to work, then the white collars and then the city waking up, shops opening and everybody busy until lunchtime.
After a suitable rest the afternoon follows as frenetic as the morning and then, when the low and middle class go home, the nightlife begins, in theatres, sport halls and cabarets. I was sort of expecting the movie to sort of loop back to the beginning with the last of the night crowd going home and meeting the blue collars, but it ends at night.
Some of the photography is amazing for the time and on the whole clever and very well made. It saddened me to think that within 15 years the whole city bustling with life and construction works was going to be bombed down almost to the ground, but that's another story.
After a suitable rest the afternoon follows as frenetic as the morning and then, when the low and middle class go home, the nightlife begins, in theatres, sport halls and cabarets. I was sort of expecting the movie to sort of loop back to the beginning with the last of the night crowd going home and meeting the blue collars, but it ends at night.
Some of the photography is amazing for the time and on the whole clever and very well made. It saddened me to think that within 15 years the whole city bustling with life and construction works was going to be bombed down almost to the ground, but that's another story.