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Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

Germany, 1927
film

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City is a 1927 German silent film directed by Walter Ruttmann, co-written by Carl Mayer and Karl Freund. Composer Edmund Meisel wa..

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All that mighty heart

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Metropolis

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United States, 1972
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