Walter Ruttmann’s love letter to Berlin of the late 1920s, this five-reel symphony follows Berliners hard at work by day and then enjoying the city's boisterous nightlife.

Walter Ruttmann’s definitive ‘city symphony’ is a lyrical dawn to dusk portrait of Berlin during the Weimar Republic. Divided into five ‘movements’, Ruttmann uses montage and beguiling abstract images to capture the pulse and mood of the city in 1927. Capped with Karl Freund's exquisite camerawork, the film creates moments of poetry that have seldom been equalled on film.

With live piano and percussion accompaniment by Stephen Horne and Martin Pyne.