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Exhibitions in the Filmmuseum
Marlene
Dietrich
This exhibition of
the film star's estate
includes costumes,
touring luggage,
photographs, letters
and notes, posters
and film clips.
Post-War Cinema
The story of films and film-
making in East and West Ger-
many, with props and costumes
of popular stars of post-war
German cinema such as Hanna
Schygulla, Romy Schneider,
Heinz Rühmann and Mario Adorf.
Film poster
Artificial Worlds
The tricks employed by
special effects studios, ranging
from the first effects of the
1930s to computer animation.
Metropolis
This film, directed by Fritz
Lang in 1927, has an alarming
vision of a future world as its
subject. Models and props from
the film are on display.
Transatlantic
This exhibition of documents,
letters, keepsakes and souvenirs
retraces the careers of German
film stars in Hollywood.
Caligari
The best known German
film of the 1920s,
The Cabinet
of Dr Caligari
(1920), was a
masterpiece of Expressionist
filmmaking by Robert Wiene.
Pioneers and Divas
The infant days of cinema
are featured here - as well as
stars of the silent era such as
Henny Porten and Asta Nielsen.
Leni Riefenstahl
This exhibition reveals the
technical tricks used in the Nazi
propaganda film
Olympia,
made
by Leni Riefenstahl in 1936-8.
Exile
Documents relate the diffi-
culties encountered by German
filmmakers when making a new
start in the USA in 1933-45.
Film and National
Socialism
This exhibition features docu-
ments relating to the propaganda
uses of film, everyday cinema
and the industry's victims: some
film stars allowed themselves
to be used by the Nazis, others
refused to cooperate. The life
and work of the actor Kurt
Gerron, who was persecuted
and murdered, is documented
as an exemplary case.
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