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Berlin Chamissoplatz (1980)
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the finest German narrative film ever made moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Hanns Zischler | ... | Martin |
| Sabine Bach | ... | Anna Bach |
| Wolfgang Kinder | ... | Jörg |
| Gisela Freudenberg | ... | Claudia |
| Alexander Malkowsky | ... | Alex |
| Anna Klasse | ... | Karin |
| Hildegard Bach | ... | Annas Mutter |
| Ralf Lotzin | ... | Atze |
| Bela Braukmann | ... | Sven |
| Hans Brockmann | ... | Dr. Franke |
| Ulrich Ströhle | ... | Anwalt |
| Hans Lechner | ... | Dieter |
| Cynthia Beatt | ... | WG-Bewohnerin |
| Jochen Brunow | ... | Apotheker |
| Ingo Kaetel | ... | CB-Funker |
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112 minCountry:
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I am anything else than an admirer of German cinema before or after the war. And the biggest compliment I can give to Rudolf Thomes film BERLIN CHAMISSOPLATZ is that it reminds me rather in the great masters of Japanese cinema than in German films. It has both, a very precise almost documentary aspect. The place, the city in a very specific time and a poetic love story between an architect in his forties and a young student. What I would like to call "Japanese" in this film is the playful combination between a very concrete place, a very concrete social situation (the film deals with the resistance of people in a special quarter in Berlin who resist the modernisation of this a quarter because it means rising rents) and a fictive story. And like in the Japanese films of an Ozu or an Shimizu the fiction and the reality going together in an almost magical way. The real places, streets and buildings which are familiar to me as I live in Berlin have such a strange beauty. This film has exactly that what is missed mostly in German fiction films, because Berlin Chamissoplatz is real art (a masterfully photography) it is a document of a special period in Berlin, the end of the fights of people for flats and at the same time it has the magical poetry of American or Japanese cinema. Berlin Chamissoplatz is at least the best narrative German film made after the war and Rudolf Thome is one of the very very few real great German film directors after 1945.