From the TV Archive: Romeo und Julia in Berlin

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FRG 1957, director: Hanns Korngiebel

Divided Berlin

In the 1950s and 1960s, the division of Germany was regarded as a "cash poison" in the FRG and West Berlin and was avoided by commercial film production. Television filled this gap.

In 1957, the play Romeo und Julia in Berlin, an early work by Gerd Oelschlegel, was adapted by Hanns Korngiebel for the NWDR as one of the first full-length television films.