Today yet, tomorrow surely – Filmic Perspectives on Berlin Around 1990

“35 years after the end of the division of Germany, the Stadtmuseum Berlin has dedicated a large scale film exhibition in the Museum Nikolaikirche to the upheavals in Berlin around 1990.  Short documentary films, as well as excerpts from film and television span a period of four decades, affording rare insight into the far-reaching changes of this era. Above all in East Berlin, people experienced a storm of seemingly contradictory events. On the one hand, self-empowerment and new freedoms arose, not to mention the promise represented by the market economy. …”