Berlin Babylon

Name: Berlin Babylon
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 17, 2001
Rating: 67

2001

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Media Luna Entertainment | Release Date: October 17, 2001

Summary: A city divided for nearly half a century begins to rebuild. Shot over a 5-year period, this film records the myriad controversies at the heart of a massive building campaign by international companies anxious to make their mark in the new European capital. (Film Forum)

Director: Hubertus Siegert

Genre(s): Documentary

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A.O. Scott

Babylon is about architecture as a balm, and this is a particularly good time for such a film. Read full review

Michael Atkinson

To many eyes, Berlin was the saddest city in 20th-century Europe, divided and lost, and as city symphonies go, Siegert's is pragmatic and optimistic. Read full review

John Petrakis

This film would be an excellent companion piece to Wim Wenders' "Wings of Desire," which deals with angels looking down on this scarred city. Berlin Babylon isn't nearly as lush, but in its own curious way, it's every bit as spiritual. Read full review

Jonathan Foreman

Moves at a leisurely pace, and it cries out for a narrator or even just an organizing principle. Read full review

J.R. Jones

Unfortunately the film never establishes either a perspective of its own or a coherent geography of the city, so the politicians pontificating at ceremonies and architects commiserating at building sites become deadly dull long before the the film exhausts its 88 minutes. Read full review

Tasha Robinson

The film's deep, precise colors, which look like they belong in a Peter Greenaway movie, are Berlin Babylon's first major surprise. The second is how watchable it is, given its obsessive focus on buildings. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

The voices of the architects, developers, public officials and contractors here discussing the specifics of particular sites, we're hearing the voices of a conflicted nation as it considers how to handle its tumultuous past while defining itself for future generations. Read full review

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Murphydh1

May 7, 2020

Alot of moving parts but they move well and a a definite fast pace. Sets are astonishing . The characters are interesting and welll portrayed as is 1929 ,30 Germany

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