Alexanderplatz Unawares

(1934)

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1934

Runtime: 8 мин

Country: Germany

Director: Peter Pewas

Plot

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.