That last full day in Berlin

Still catching up on the trip diary.  But this should do it.

We spent most of our last full day in Berlin in the Sony Center at Potsdamer Platz (which is, itself, of historical significance).

And most of that we spent in the Museum für Film und Fernsehen

There’s more German and German-speaking film history, I suspect, than many Americans are aware of — and I’m not referring merely to such figures as Peter Lorre and Marlene Dietrich (who were very well represented).  Were you aware that Billy Wilder, who directed (and sometimes co-wrote) such films as Double Indemnity, The Apartment, Some Like It Hot, The Seven-Year Itch, The Lost Weekend, and Sabrina was Austrian?

It’s a superb museum.  Very well organized and beautifully laid out.

The exhibits on Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and M, and on the silent horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, were excellent, as were the exhibits on the German film industry during the Nazi period and the enormous damage that Nazism did to German film and to many of those who created it.

We had dinner nearby, and then watched the new George Clooney film, Tomorrowland.  Pretty stupid.  Of course, I was sleepy, and I think I may have dozed off for a total of sixty scattered seconds.  So maybe I missed the key scene.  Maybe it would have made sense.

Posted from Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany