›All clues lead to Berlin‹, BRD 1952, Direction: Franz Cap
Copyright: Deutsche Kinemathek
Die Spur führt nach Berlin
Si̇nema Transtopia
This American-style thriller is set in bombed-out Berlin. An American attorney arrives in the city in search of the long-lost heir to a vast fortune. He falls into the clutches of a gang of international counterfeiters. However, the daughter of the man he is looking for comes to his aid, allowing him to escape. High-speed chases through the streets of West Berlin, past ruins and construction sites, are both action-packed and documentary in style.
FRG 1952, Franz Cap, 90 min, OV with ENG subtitles
Introduction: Johannes Praetorius-Rhein (Film scholar and sociologist)
In German
| Tickets | €9 |
| When | Sat 25.10.25, 12:00 |
| Where |
Si̇nema Transtopia |
Zusatzinfos im Slider
Film details
Film data
D: Franz Cap
SP: Hans Rameau
DoP: Helmut Asley
E: Johanna Meisel
S: Werner Maas
M: Herbert Trantow
C: Gordon Howard, Irina Garden, Kurt Meisel, Hans Nielsen, Paul Bildt, Barbara Rütting
P: CCC-Film GmbH (Berlin)
Prod: Artur Brauner
Original format: 35 mm, 1:1.33, s/w
Screening print: DCP, 90 min, Deutsche Kinemathek
Restoration info
Digitization in 4K and digital restoration in 2K resolution, based on the original 35 mm camera and sound negatives. Digitization was made possible by the Film Heritage Funding Program (FFE).
Johannes Praetorius-Rhein
is a film scholar and received his doctorate on the early Holocaust films of film producer Artur Brauner. At the Konrad Wolf Film University Babelsberg, he develops and maintains a database for the DFG project “Jewish Film Heritage.” At the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, he does research into the history of a forgotten medium – “filmstrips” or “slide films” – for the German-British project “Relocating Filmstrips, Remapping Europe.” He has co-curated several film history exhibitions, including “Ausgeblendet/Eingeblendet” at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt and the multilingual online exhibition “Frames of Reconstruction” on non-fictional post-war cinema in Europe.