Alexanderplatz Unawares

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.

• Release date
• November 30, 1934
• Runtime
• 8 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Peter Pewas