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niques include
Nosferatu,
a 1922 Dracula adaptation by FW Murnau, and the ground-break-
ing
Metropolis
(1927), by Fritz Lang. One of the earliest seminal talkies was Josef von
Sternberg's
Der Blaue Engel
(1930) starring Dietrich. After 1933, though, film-makers
found their artistic freedom, not to mention funding, increasingly curtailed, and by 1939
practically the entire industry had fled to Hollywood.
Films made during the Nazi period were mostly of the propaganda variety, with brilliant
if controversial Berlin-born director Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) greatly pushing the
genre's creative envelope. Her most famous film,
Triumph of the Will,
documents the 1934
Nuremberg Nazi party rally.
Olympia,
which chronicles the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games,
was another seminal work.
FAMOUS FILM LOCATIONS
Wiings o
f Desiire (1987) The top of the Siegessäule (Victory Column) in Tiergarten is a
place where angels congregate and listen to people's thoughts.
Bouurne Sup
s of D
e Supremacy (2004) The epic car chase where Bourne (Matt Damon) forces
Russian assassin Kirill (Karl Urban) to crash his car into a concrete divider in a tunnel
was filmed in the Tiergartentunnel a year and a half before its official opening in 2006.
Good B
in! (2003) The flat where Alexander Kerner (Daniel Brühl) recreates life
in East Berlin for his ailing mother is in a modern high-rise at Berolinastrasse 21.
TThe L
d Bye, L
, Lenin!
f Otthers (2006) The apartment where two of the main characters, the
playwright Georg Dreymann (Sebastian Koch) and his actor wife Christa-Maria Sie-
land (Martina Gedeck), make their home is at Wedekindstrasse 21 in Friedrichshain.
TThe Hun
e Liives o
s of O
t 2 (2015) Scenes from the third instalment in this
successful series were filmed at Tempelhof Airport.
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After 1945
Like most of the arts, film-making has generally been well funded in Berlin since 1945.
During the 1970s in particular, large subsidies lured directors back to the city, including
such New German Film luminaries as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorf, Wim
Wenders and Werner Herzog. It was Wenders who made the highly acclaimed
Wings of
Desire
(1987), an angelic love story swooping around the old, bare no-man's-land of Pots-
damer Platz.
