Alexanderplatz Unawares

Alexanderplatz Unawares

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 30, 1934

Runtime

0h 8m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Alexanderplatz überrumpelt

Director

Peter Pewas

Description

These fragments of a documentary film project by Peter Pewas about Berlin’s Alexanderplatz show the neon signs on the big department stores, but also children playing unsupervised amid the rubble of vacant lots, passers-by trudging hurriedly through the slush, and a torchlight procession of Nazi storm troopers – a heterogeneous social reality. The film was never completed because the director was arrested by the Gestapo and the footage seized.