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Berlin – From Dawn to Dusk

In der Dämmerstunde – Berlin
Annik Leroy
Homage Annik Leroy 2020
Documentary Film
Belgium,
FRG
1981
67 minutes
French,
German
Subtitles: 
English

Long walks through almost deserted cityscapes which even in the late 1970s still bear the distinct scars of the Second World War: a Belgian filmmaker encounters West Berlin. She tries to re-adjust in this terrain saturated with European history and films this transformation in the first person singular. The images of twilight captured on grainy 16mm footage make Berlin look like a city that lies deep in the East, even though it sees itself as a Western city. But Annik Leroy mistrusts the mirror images: they don’t help if you want to see things more clearly.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Annik Leroy
Script
Annik Leroy
Cinematographer
Annik Leroy
Editor
Eva Houdova, Daniel De Valck
Producer
Gamma Films, ZDF, Centre de l'Audiovisuel à Bruxelles (CBA)
Sound
Alain Marchal