Alexanderplatz überrumpelt
Alexanderplatz Unawares![](/media/filmstills/2018/retrospektive/201802177_1_RWD_1380.jpg)
Source: Deutsche Kinemathek
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Alexanderplatz überrumpelt | Alexanderplatz Unawares by Peter Pewas
DEU 1932, Retrospective
Source: Deutsche Kinemathek
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.
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Director | Peter Pewas |
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Film Print: Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin