Berlin. Sinfonie einer Großstadt: Kinoorgel Live! Stumm-Film-Zeit im Musikinstrumentenmuseum

In the organizer's words:

We are showing the silent movie Berlin. Symphony of the Big City directed by Walther Ruttmann from 1927, with Tobias Rank playing live on the cinema organ.

The film begins with a train journey: an express train pulled by a steam locomotive travels through meadows and residential areas into the city, separating the surrounding countryside from the big city. The train arrives at Anhalter Bahnhof near the city center. After panning across the rooftops of Berlin, the film shows the city streets, interrupted time and again by a view of the clock tower of Berlin City Hall. Slowly, the empty morning streets fill with people on their way to work. Work begins everywhere. The rhythm of the city and the movie gets faster and faster, as do the fades from the streets into the factories and offices. At the stroke of 12 o'clock, the pace slows down. After a lunch break and food intake, however, it begins to accelerate again in the afternoon. Only towards the evening does relaxation and calm slowly return: Ruttmann also shows leisure activities by the water and in the park and in the evening in the city's entertainment establishments. Images of fireworks and, finally, the circling light of the then newly erected Berlin radio tower in the night sky bring Ruttmann's work to a close.

(Text: wikipedia)

Price information:

https://mfm.uni-leipzig.de/dt/veranstaltungen/termine/BERLIN-SINFONIE-DER-GROssSTADT-amp-VORFILM.php