A short impressive travel in time through the history of Berlin. A Danish girl is searching for her love. She leaves present day Berlin and travels through seventy years of Germany's past. She keeps meeting her love, only to lose sight of him again in the chaos of all kinds of historical developments. Fiction and documentary run into each other in this comprehensive electronic collage. The main character appears in old, authentic footage from before, during and after the Second World War when the city of Berlin lay largely in ruins. The reconstructed time story allows the protagonist to take on various characters; an innocent dreamy girl with a little bonnet or a saluting national socialist in a Nazi uniform. The political activism (Volksabstimmung! Volksabstimmung! she cries fiercely) alternates with the search for love. The running theme of romanticism remains. The reunion with her hero leads them ultimately into a nose dive. Berlin Retour is a successful tribute to Berlin, Symphonie einer Grosstadt (1927) from the German film maker Walter Ruttman.
– Marieke van Hal
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Scenario Gusztáv Hámos, K. Pratschke, Sound K. Pratschke, Music El Gordo, Sound mixing M. Bickles, K. Radtke, A. Walter, With Michaela Schmidt, Markus Stein, Production Carl-Ludwig Rettinger
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A conversation with Gusztáv Hámos 