‘One More Time’

Until 31 October, visitors still have the opportunity to experience the comprehensive exhibition on German film and television history at the Filmhaus – and enjoy free admission during the final week. Under the motto ‘One More Time’, the Kinemathek offers an extensive programme of various guided tours. Afterwards, it will be dismantled and packed up. In 2025, the Deutsche Kinemathek will move to its temporary location at the E-Werk in Berlin-Mitte.
 
Since its opening, the exhibition designed by architect Hans Dieter Schaal has delighted more than two million visitors. On the occasion of its opening, the film critic Georg Seeßlen wrote in Die ZEIT: ‘It has become a work of cinematic art in itself.’

Dr Rainer Rother, Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kinemathek: ‘The exhibition at Potsdamer Platz has set a high bar. Moving to E-Werk offers us the opportunity to present the history of moving image media with new interactive and contemporary formats.’

 
Film history across 2,000 m2
 
The permanent exhibition shows more than 1,000 exhibits and more than 200 film clips across 2,000 square meters. It tells richly associative stories of the connection between film and contemporary history. Its main topics include the beginnings and pioneers of film, legendary Weimar cinema, how film was politically instrumentalised under National Socialism and the departure of filmmakers in East and West from the post-war period to the present. Spacious rooms with unique exhibits from the estate of Marlene Dietrich form the centre of the exhibition.

 
TV in the museum
 
Three rooms in the exhibition also reflect on German television from its beginnings in the 1950s to the present, exploring TV’s digital present and future. In the media library, more than 13,000 programmes from the GDR, FRG and reunified Germany can be individually accessed and viewed in full.

 
Free admission to the Museum of Film and Television from 24 to 31 Oct 2024.

 
Further highlights in October
Film Heritage Festival ‘Film Restored: Community’
 
The Film Restored Festival 2024 will take place from 23 to 27 October at the Filmhaus Berlin on Potsdamer Platz and online. In its ninth edition, the festival invites visitors to screenings of films from 10 countries in the Arsenal cinema. In addition, there are numerous workshops, lectures, and discussion events in store.
 
The entire programme of the Deutsche Kinemathek is available on the website at deutsche-kinemathek.de/veranstaltungen
 
 
 
The Deutsche Kinemathek receives funding from the German Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media.