Half City West-Berlin
1988-12-28 · 17 min · Not rated
One year before the Berlin Wall fell, this silent black&white documentary from 1988 is a profile of West-Berlin: places and people, moods and locations; you eventually see "Checkpoint Charlie" still in function.
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- Directors
- Joachim Polzer
- Production companies
- Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Kultur
- Countries
- Germany
- Status
- Released
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