1970s, 1980s Germany, POV Driving In East Berlin, 35mm

[@tolugo87]

Sometimes I dream about old places I've never been and they looks exactly like this one, and it's funny because I have a feeling I've been there before, even though I wasn't even born.

[@ROCdevelopments]

That's freaky because so do I. That's the reason I even clicked on this video.

[@petersaysthings]

I think past lives are real, I've had a lot of dreams of being in different places at different times.

[@frzzzdtm]

I came here for these kind of comment,yeah kinda agree with past live

[@petersaysthings]

@@oliverbengtsson9198 Science is an ever-evolving field, and I have no doubts there will be someday. Based on how many accounts of children there are who remember, and how many details they've recalled which can be factually verified--including things only surviving family members of those alleged lives would know--I'm convinced it's real. So it's odd to me that that field of study is met with as much skepticism as it is, because some kids are very traumatized be those pasts, and only when they return to where their previous life ended do they begin the healing process. There's a lot about this universe that we still don't understand.

[@oliverbengtsson9198]

@Cole Trickle AAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!

[@chrisd5610]

This is definitely East Berlin and it looks more like the 70’s than the 80’s with all those trabants and lada’s. Not a single 80’s model spotted and only a single 70’s mk1 (western) golf. Nice clip tho. 👍

[@thomasalbrecht5914]

Chris Dixon also, tramlines. Even today there’s no tram in former West Berlin. It’s definitely East Berlin.

[@thomasalbrecht5914]

Chris Dixon it’s the 1980s though: right at the start there’s a Citroën GSA, launched 1980, then there’s an early Mazda 323 behind the tram coming the opposite way, and at 1:15 a Mk I Fiat UNO is visible (launched 1983). All these models were imported in small quantities by GDR foreign trade organisations, since the domestic industry had trouble coping (hence the many old models in the streets).

[@angelitos99]

@@thomasalbrecht5914 I know it's rather difficult, but can you spot wheter or not Fiat Uno's plate is east german?

[@thomasalbrecht5914]

@@angelitos99 I don’t recognise anything on the plate but having driven a Fiat Uno in West Germany around 1990, I would say the plate on the one in this clip looks smaller in proportion, which would be consistent with an old GDR plate.

[@angelitos99]

@@thomasalbrecht5914 I thought the same.

[@tonyclifton265]

the opening shot looks like Kastanienallee Prenzlauerberg, heading westwards. at 35s the junction is Oderbergerstrasse. 1min27s turn right into Schwedterstrasse

[@heinrichw.seekamp6031]

Correct!

[@giannisantypas9316]

0:47 Mazda 323 1:16 Fiat Uno

[@jagdpanther2224]

0:40 Volvo

[@KrazeeClark]

The ultra wealthy and well connected must have driven those kinds of cars.

[@giannisantypas9316]

@@KrazeeClark Indeed. Take for example DDR's leader Erich Honecker and his Citroen CX limousine.

[@thms93]

2:32 Golf mk1 on the right

[@barse27]

this vide shold be used with a comparison same angel same speed 2021 then and now

[@paulbell5374]

0:12 if I am not mistaken that is the Prater Biergarten

[@johnnyt2968]

Take a shot everytime you see a trabant

[@Starsk25]

It's as though time stood still.

[@ohmcharan]

If it would be playful music and colour added you would be acting otherwise. Stop lying. There's no sound

[@attemptinjesus5696]

Good Berlin ulike to visit Berlin.

[@korvusgaming4927]

Look at all those Trabants...

[@valencianiste6451]

I have one and still driving to uni with it.

[@berlinocelot]

It's like being inside a faded postcard.

[@solveigthana2398]

The Russians made an effort to repair older buildings in their sector compared to the Americans or British who demolished so much. You still get a feel of the pre-war architecture of Berlin here.

[@jagdpanther2224]

Probably west Berlin was heavily damaged in air raids, the,East Berlin was slightly damage mostly by red army's artillery!

[@gerberjoanne266]

If that's true, they didn't do too good a job. I visited East Berlin in the spring of 1988. There was still a lot of construction going on, as they were still trying to build apartment buildings to make up for the housing lost during World War Two. Over 40 years later, it was still a struggle for them.

[@JohnnyFriendly]

@@jagdpanther2224 This is the more likely explanation. I think 90% of West Berlin needed to be rebuilt after the war but you can still see parts of the pre-war Berlin (cobblestone streets etc) in Prenzlauer Berg today (which of course was in East Berlin)

[@icysaracen3054]

Also Both sides had to bulldoze buildings with nazi symbolic fixtures

[@eduarddv00]

@@jagdpanther2224 the red army conquered all of berlin, including west berlin, as well as most of eastern Germany. western allies only managed to reach Magdeburg. with that in mind, the red army they definitely shelled all sides of berlin, not only the east side

[@Brian6587]

Very cool!

[@panatypical]

Just remember, when you're thinking you have past lives, it's Del Diablo influencing you.

[@RumJK]

It was like 50s...

[@Davey935]

I think this is East Berlin, not the West

[@rexgeorg7324]

I agree with you David !!!

[@eiffe]

Yes, just look at the cars!

[@dionisio89420]

Absolutely Ost-Berlin indeed, keen eye mate. PS: can we know the exact year of this Footage as well? Why does @thekinolibrary always fill the title with 1970's, 1980's, 1990's etc...

[@rexgeorg7324]

its a guide line ..

[@KrazeeClark]

You’re correct. East Berlin is included in the title. Maybe it was changed after your comment.

[@fedegiova]

Clean roads. No potholes. No traffic.

[@piigii7645]

lack of freedom

[@RMProjects785]

Poor, ruined buildings not prepared since the war

[@samsquanch1996]

These buildings you're seeing have bullet holes in them. A camera can only capture so much. Also, look how cracked those roads are, what do you mean clean?

[@jagdpanther2224]

D.D.R. was most wealthy communist country in the world at that time (1980s)! I think this footage was early 1980s,1980,1981. Because I saw a Mazda 323, that car made year was 1979, so it was the most modern car in east Germany!

[@slighter]

It’s definitely after 1985, trams give it away.

[@glomibabel1894]

D.D.R. was most wealthy communist country no was Czechoslovakia

[@Project-wz9rs]

​​@@glomibabel1894 DDR was wealthier

[@Star-wh9lc]

So Ture They Whose so Wealthy and kind But pepple dont know That

[@gerberjoanne266]

The buildings and streets are so drab, it seems as if the DDR had outlawed color (except for buses and trams).

[@landonorris6]

That's just the film

[@gerberjoanne266]

@@landonorris6 Well, I did briefly visit East Berlin while it was still East Berlin. And, except for a few new or newly renovated buildings here or there, I found it to be pretty grim.

[@blitzi9631]

@@landonorris6 it was grim

[@liamsohal-griffiths1094]

There's something sadly ironic about the large shop sign saying 'Farben' at 0:32, if someone was making and selling 'Farben' you have to wonder where they were actually using them, because there's no sign of them on the streets.

[@mfelix3511]

count the number of beggars you see on the streets

[@mfelix3511]

@Robert Ernest Low exactly

[@mikered1974]

@@UCLAfilm01 they havo no beggars because everybody is Poor so what the point Begging if everyone cannot give just look Pyongyang theres no Beggars theres all beggars was kicked out of the city.

[@TORREX-A.D.]

Just like California roads

[@baronmeduse]

Looks like some places I've been to in the U.S. And also like the dilapidated suburbs in the north of England under Thatcher.

[@waldomatamoros]

Watch the videos of west berlin around the same time.

[@baronmeduse]

@Robert Ernest Low Probably was.

[@baronmeduse]

@@UCLAfilm01 What I'm talking about you dolt, who clearly has no grasp of economic history, is someone who got wrapped up in the failed ideology of monetarism and got elected to try and implement it. Quickly realised that it runs counter to how sovereign monetary economies operate, but was too dim to alter the course ven in the face of mass unemployment and infrastructure decline. Drunk on the myth that money users (the private sector_) somehow finance the money issuer (government). I'm not interested in your other racist and delusional views. Consult a psychiatrist, go back to education or just sit down and shut your trap.

[@TueLesPigeons]

Fiat Uno at 01:16, so this is post '85

[@iainmacdonald3571]

Although Uno made from 1983 so perhaps a bit earlier?

[@rayman17578]

So ist das leben

[@crusinclassicslucas6218]

Omg there are literally so many trabants

[@v.dargain1678]

And the people on the street have apprehensive looks on their faces . What's up every body ? What are you hiding ?

[@LmTheDuck]

Meanwhile: Bell and Adler on the roof

[@Admiral_yamato]

I'm here looking for kinderheim 511 if it is real 🥶

[@sergioa.moreno8129]

The capitalist sector in color and this was all grey

[@gunter1791]

East Berlin wasnt that bad

[@valencianiste6451]

so fucking true

[@cliffordadams8353]

Looks like Covid struck here early

[@cooper7031]

Kinda boring seeing the same strret scene over again...

[@georgelebreton3177]

It all seems such an eerie, unsettling and depressing place (~and even time!) to be in!...🤤 Could it be somehow "sensing" what communism (réálly!) must 've felt like?...🤔

[@rjuttemeijer]

Grey, tasteless, dirty, no atmosphere, depressing.

[@luuchoo93]

It looks so soulless, grey and depressing….

[@Elle_Gowing]

It looks a lot better than many "modern" EU cities now. Clean streets, clean buildings

[@indopasnorte8804]

WTF are you delusional? These buildings on their walls have bullet holes dating back to ww2 and there are visible piles of furniture/ trash (?) on the sidewalks, streets seems to be in a very poor condition (especially tram rails). Even poorer cities in eastern Europe looks so much better.

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

Sure, but at what cost?

[@MidnightsDeluxe]

It looks lifeless & colorless

[@carlosdelavanzo157]

May be you liked the Stasi !

[@lavry5476]

Berlin is still clean today

[@Trashvenus]

KASTANIENALLEE

[@nonyobussiness3440]

So scary and dirty.

[@paulrosin7683]

looks like hell

[@regularyugoslav8188]

buildings may look grim, yes, however life there wasn't according to my grandpa. During his visit over there (as a truck driver) he met a lot of welcoming and nice people

[@Owen-hd3oq]

if this is what you think hell looks like then you are privileged as fuck

[@caim3465]

@@Owen-hd3oq yeah, them snowflakes are always lucky.

[@d3th2m3rikkka]

@@Owen-hd3oq He probably lives in a bland, depressing American suburb with no trees, where the only place to eat is Applebee's, where you struggle to pay off your mortgage and you need a car to go anywhere. People don't find things depressing if they're used to it.

[@mrcool2107]

Cause you are from hell

[@RisitasPolonais7335]

East Germany looked very poor. Looked worst than mexico

[@Robbie33]

Worst than IRAQ 😂😂

[@jagdpanther2224]

The east Germans were having their humble life but not poor! Mexico is very horrible, their wealth was earned by bloody drug wars with many corpses discovered every day!

[@mrcool2107]

@@Robbie33 Iraq is worse than a garbage can