📍 Berlin German Film Museum Travelogue 📒

🎬 During the Berlin Film Festival, I managed to find time to achieve a small goal I had when coming to this city - visiting the Deutsche Kinemathek. Although the entire building may not compare to the French Film Museum, it has a very "German" feel from its interior to its style, with a strong industrial vibe that fits strangely well with "Metropolis". You can buy tickets offline at the ground floor or on the official website (which offers some free tickets daily), and with a student ID, it's 5 Euros. 🎬 The -2 floor features two auditoriums named Arsenal Cinema, and on the ground floor, there's a shop selling museum merchandise, DVDs, etc. I bought a DVD of Jim Jarmusch's "Night on Earth." 🎬 The main attraction, the permanent exhibition, is on the 3rd floor, where the information is comprehensive, covering German cinema from the silent era to the fall of the Berlin Wall, supported by various film manuscripts and diagrams... Of course, there's a certain bias, such as an entire floor dedicated to German Expressionism with pride, featuring "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and "M"... They also specifically display the set and concept drawings of "Metropolis," and the architecture from 100 years ago still feels futuristic. The permanent exhibition spans two floors, with the 3rd floor focusing up to "Metropolis." The 2nd floor covers post-war German cinema, the New German Cinema, and the history of the Berlin Wall, even featuring two walls dedicated to the most representative posters of East and West German films each year. 🎬 At the end of the exhibition, there's an interactive facility. It seems that quite a few Chinese visitors have come here, and it's interesting to see someone write that their enlightening films were "Black Cat Detective" and "Big-Headed Son and Little-Headed Dad." I also left a few passionate strokes in the "Chronicles of Time" nearby. If you go again, you can take a look, haha. The 4th floor usually hosts special exhibitions, and when I went, it was just a video installation with nothing particularly rare. Above the 4th floor are offices and conference rooms, which are off-limits to the public. 🎬 Overall, the permanent exhibition is excellent, almost perfectly combining German political history with film history. The architectural and layout style also matches German cinema very well. It's a must-visit exhibition 👍 #WildFilmCritic #Berlin #BerlinLife #WatchingMoviesInBerlin #DeutscheKinemathek #GermanMuseums #EuropeanMuseums #BerlinAttractions #BerlinMuseums #HistoryOfGermanCinema