
The Devil decides to go and visit Kurfürstendamm, where all His clients seem to come from. He settles at "Pension Elvira", where everybody cheats and deceives Him.


Richard Oswald’s Kurfürstendamm is not merely a film; it is a cracked kaleidoscope held up to a city that believed itself immortal at the precise moment it began to rot. Shot in the winter of 1919-20, while Spartacist blood still rusted the snow, the picture saunters out of Ufa’s Tempelhof studios wearing the grin of...

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" Richard Oswald’s Kurfürstendamm is not merely a film; it is a cracked kaleidoscope held up to a city that believed itself immortal at the precise moment it began to rot. Shot in the winter of 1919-20, while Spartacist blood still rusted the snow, the picture saunters out of Ufa’s Tempelhof studios wearing the grin of a reveler who knows the hangover will be historic. Ninety-plus years of nitrate decay have left us only a battered 35 mm negative in the Bundesarchiv and a smattering of tantalizi..."
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