Overview

This film deals with the contrasts of the Wilhelminian era in Berlin: the splendor of the monarchy, the economic and intellectual vitality of the up-and-coming imperial capital on the one hand, and the misery of the proletarians in the tenements on the other. The documentary sets depressing images of the horrors at the front against the exhilaration of victory at the beginning of the First World War.

Top Cast

Jürgen Thormann

Narrator

Martin Held

voice

C

Charlotte Joeres

voice

Carl Raddatz

voice

E

Eva Katharina Schultz

voice