World Film Locations: Berlin

World Film Locations: Berlin is elegantly designed and packed with evocative film stills, location info, and maps. It is both affordable and collectable.

This volume includes more than 50 scene-specific reviews and short essays, exploring the roles of construction sites, film music, and key personalities such as Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl. It features contributions from experts specialising in German studies, urban history, and film studies.

Berlin, one of the most dynamic capital cities of the twenty-first century, possesses a tumultuous modern history. A city that matured along with cinema, it has been captured on film through periods of exuberance, devastation, division, and reconstruction.

World Film Locations: Berlin offers a broad overview of these varied cinematic representations. It covers a range of films from early classics to contemporary star vehicles, providing detailed analyses of more than fifty key scenes from productions shot across the city on location. Additionally, spotlight essays by contributors dive into issues central to understanding Berlin cinema.

Among the topics discussed are the roles of rubble, construction sites, and music in Berlin-based films, along with key personalities including Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl. With the help of full-colour illustrations, which include film stills and contemporary location shots, World Film Locations: Berlin cinematically maps the city's twentieth century, taking readers behind the scenes and shedding new light on the connections between many favourite, and potentially soon-to-be favourite, films.