NHTI – Concord’s Community College Presents Walther Ruttmann's BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (Germany, 1927)

NHTI’s Friday Night Film Series presents Walther Ruttmann’s 1927 documentary of life in Weimar Berlin, Germany, BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (BERLIN, DIE SINFONIE DER GROßSTADT), one of the most famous silent classics films and a leading, early example of a genre that’s come to be known as City Symphony, an aesthetic also developed early on by Dziga Vertov, and Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand. As a means of expressing the life and vitality of a city through cinematic means, the City Symphony aesthetic has also influenced the work of generations of filmmakers throughout film history including Leitão de Barros, José Val del Omar, Henri Storck, Boris Lehman, Steve Bilich, Dominic Angerame, Peter von Bagh, and others.

NHTI – Concord’s Community College screening info is here.

GME distributes the Il Cinema Ritrovato award-winning DVD edition of BERLIN, DIE SINFONIE DER GROßSTADT exclusively to academic institutions in North America. NHTI has acquired a copy of this DVD for their film program.