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BERLIN MUSEUM FOR FILM AND TELEVISION
Potsdamerplatz Sony Center

Berin Film Museum photoYou enter from the top floor, gingerly crossing a gleaming metallic walkway that feels a thousand miles up from black space, like you might tumble over and be lost, the lighting for your path provided by glowing screen images of great iconic German films in a surreal fantasy of space and time. Like all good cinema, it is an illusion. The walkway and floor are the same level, only the black mirror-like quality of the space providing the feeling of limitlessness. This unique museum space for film history in Berlin was designed by Hans Dieter Schaal and is as much a work of art as the seminal master filmography it presents.

Film Museum Berlin Metropolis Robot photoThe Film Museum of Berlin, taking up four floors in the massive modernistic entertainment mall of the Sony Center at Potsdamerplatz is a wondrous and mysterious journey into Germany’s historic place in film. A series of passages leads the visitor through eras and themes, German existentialism, fantasy and propaganda. From the surrealism of Robert Wiene's "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Fritz Lang’s “M” to Marlene Dietrich. The great film-makers who left Germany before the war for Hollywood like Erich von Stroheim and Ernst Lubitsch to make the great films of Hollywood's Golden era to the ones who stayed like Leni Riefenstahl who's documentary of the Nuremberg Rally "Triumph of the Will" was perhaps one of the greatest propaganda films ever produced, but unfortunately for the National Socialist machine. The Museum of Film and Television is divided into two vertical multi-floor sections, one side for film history and the other for television.

German Cinema Masters photoThe museum has permanent as well as temporary exhibits of artifacts, images, personal letters and papers of film greats, art designs, sets and costumes, and a collection of scripts from Germany’s most famous filmmakers. The most recognized costumes of Germany’s most beloved and greatest star Marlene Dietrich takes up two rooms. Fantasy is well represented from “Metropolis” to a great collection of models and dioramas of the mythic monsters of the master of stop-motion Ray Harryhausen, to "Star Wars" and H. R. Giger. The items on display represent only a sample of over a million photographs and thousands of posters, drawings, design sketches and film prints held in the archives of the German Film Society (Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek) The television side of the exhibits lead through a history of German broadcasting from early camera technology through the growth of private networks.

Visiting the Berlin Film Museum

Berlin Film Entrance Sony Center photoThe Berlin Museum of Film and Television Library is open to visitors for research. Archives also hold the historical retrospective of the Berlin International Film Festival (see Berlinale Festival). Admission is €7 for adults, €4.50 reduction. Guided tours are held evenings the 1st Thursday of the month and on weekends. The museum is closed on Mondays. Entrance to the Museum and the store where you can take home your own bits of German film history is from the ground floor concourse of the Sony Center (Filmhaus am Potsdammer Platz). © Bargain Travel Europe

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