This is a typical post-war picture showing a reconstructed Berlin and avoiding any depth and least of all any social criticism, just trying to show the city as modern, beautiful and attractive to tourists. The infamous wall had not yet been built, and although East and West-Berlin frontier limits are clearly seen and subway travelers are warned when crossing them, policemen from both sides work hand-in-hand to catch a couple of evaded gunmen.
A few selected spots are shown, leaving historical ones (and any ones connected with the Nazis) off. In one sequence, "Nie wieder Krieg" (never again war) can be read painted in big letters on a wall. Also what is left of the Allied-bombed Kaiser Wilhelm church (Gedächtniskirche)is shown on top of the Kufürsterdamm avenue where the hotel of this story is located.
The film is composed of several stories involving the passengers of a plane having had to land in Berlin instead of Kobenhavn for a couple of days. Sonja Ziemann and Walter Giller play a famed photographer and his wife about to get the divorce, then there are three young scientists on their way to a polar post, one of them looking for a former girlfriend, and Márta Éggerth as an opera singer who left an unfinished story in the city and will now find out what happened. Hans Leibert as a nervous businessman about to become a father and a black jazz group are secondary characters. Ivan Petrovitch, who played with Márta in Blume von Hawaii in the 1930s, has a significant role too. As the different stories develop, we are taken to the Zoo, the Waldbühne entertainment gardens, Postdam, the Stalin Avenue in the new part of the city, and a bit of nightlife too.
As a whole, nice entertainment if one does not expect much more. The color photography retains its brightness in the DVD edition.
The best of the picture is Miss Eggert´s singing an operatic aria and an Hungarian song, and the most interesting is to have a look at the city itsef. It is late 50s and you can still see a lot of reconstruction and ruined buildings and churches, and new buildings between old ones.
A few selected spots are shown, leaving historical ones (and any ones connected with the Nazis) off. In one sequence, "Nie wieder Krieg" (never again war) can be read painted in big letters on a wall. Also what is left of the Allied-bombed Kaiser Wilhelm church (Gedächtniskirche)is shown on top of the Kufürsterdamm avenue where the hotel of this story is located.
The film is composed of several stories involving the passengers of a plane having had to land in Berlin instead of Kobenhavn for a couple of days. Sonja Ziemann and Walter Giller play a famed photographer and his wife about to get the divorce, then there are three young scientists on their way to a polar post, one of them looking for a former girlfriend, and Márta Éggerth as an opera singer who left an unfinished story in the city and will now find out what happened. Hans Leibert as a nervous businessman about to become a father and a black jazz group are secondary characters. Ivan Petrovitch, who played with Márta in Blume von Hawaii in the 1930s, has a significant role too. As the different stories develop, we are taken to the Zoo, the Waldbühne entertainment gardens, Postdam, the Stalin Avenue in the new part of the city, and a bit of nightlife too.
As a whole, nice entertainment if one does not expect much more. The color photography retains its brightness in the DVD edition.
The best of the picture is Miss Eggert´s singing an operatic aria and an Hungarian song, and the most interesting is to have a look at the city itsef. It is late 50s and you can still see a lot of reconstruction and ruined buildings and churches, and new buildings between old ones.
