
28 Up(1984)
Just two years away from turning 30, participants in Michael Apted's documentary series are facing serious questions of identity and purpose, wondering whether they've found their place in the world.

This film deals with the contrasts of the Wilhelminian era in Berlin: the splendor of the monarchy, the economic and intellectual vitality of the up-and-coming imperial capital on the one hand, and the misery of the proletarians in the tenements on the other. The documentary sets depressing images of the horrors at the front against the exhilaration of victory at the beginning of the First World War.

Jürgen Thormann
Narrator

Martin Held
voice
Charlotte Joeres
voice

Carl Raddatz
voice
Eva Katharina Schultz
voice
Berlin zur Kaiserzeit - Glanz und Schatten einer Epoche is a documentary film released in 1986. Directed by Irmgard von zur Mühlen, it stars Jürgen Thormann, Martin Held, Charlotte Joeres. This film deals with the contrasts of the Wilhelminian era in Berlin: the splendor of the monarchy, the economic and intellectual vitality of the up-and-coming imperial capital on the one hand, and the misery of the proletarians in the tenements on the other. The documentary sets depressing images of the horrors at the front against the exhilaration of victory at the beginning of the First World War.
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