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Released
2003 · FILM

Berlin Blues

Till then, then…

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
105 min
Language
DE
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

In October 1989, the SO 36 district of West Berlin's Kreuzberg borough had been cut off by the Berlin Wall from the rest of the city for 28 years. A quiet subculture of students, artists, bohemians, and barflies had developed within its neglected buildings. Among them is Frank, a barkeeper known semi-formally as "Herr Lehmann" by his friends and regulars. He spends his time drinking, shows little interest in anything beyond SO 36, and casually pursues an affair with cook Katrin. His routine is gradually disrupted when his parents arrive for a visit, tensions with Katrin escalate, and his best friend Karl begins acting oddly. At the same time, political unrest grows on the other side of the Wall.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Peter R AdamShot by Frank GriebeDesigned by Thomas Stammer

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  • Berlin Bluesen

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