The skillful portrayal of, presumably, one day in the capital of Germany; as constructed from footage taken over the course of 1927. It offers a particularly utopian view of 1920’s Berlin. We are witness to the varied healthy political, social, industrial, economical activities of the city compacted into ‘one’ day. Celebrations abound, even psuedo-tragedy is fabricated, the city is full of life and brimming with the activity of its citizens.

Under the Weimar Republic from 1919 to 1933 German culture flourished. Indeed, the ‘Roaring Twenties’ represented the return to ‘normal’ politics post-WWI. The Bauhaus school of architecture flourished, literature, painting, and music were all celebrated and developed unfettered. This boom time represents a particularly significant political period: the gestation of the Nazi movement. In post-WWI, pre-WWII Berlin political undercurrents were turbid. Today, it is chilling to consider that only four years after the celebratory films release the National Socialist German Workers Party took control of Germany.