Memories of Berlin : Louise Brooks, Francis Lederer

“A remarkable collection of interviews by Gary Conklin with artists, writers, designers, and musicians who were part of Berlin’s rich and influential period of creativity in the 20’s.”
-Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
“Gary Conklin is a master of the documentary medium, as he as proven by this film on the Weimar era. Being a child of that era gives my admiration for this accomplishment more weight than my voice as a professional. He has caught the essence of the period.”
-Gottfried Reinhardt, producer/director
“A magnificent documentary on a fascinating period of history.” -Kenneth Tynan
“Channel 4 comes good again with a superb documentary on life in Berlin between the wars, Memories of Berlin. Movie buffs and lovers of Cabaret in particular will revel in this nostalgic trip back in time to the city’s most brilliant period.”
-Maureen Paton, Daily Express
Berlin, the newly emancipated capital of the Weimar Republic, was celebrated, not only for moral freedom, but also for artistic freedom. During the brief span of fifteen years following the First World War and ending with the ascension to power of Adolph Hitler in 1933, despite economic and political upheavals, Berlin attracted the most dazzling artistic and scientific talents of this century. From Einstein’s physics to Brecht’s epic theatre; from Schoenberg’s twelve-tone scale to the modern design of Gropius’s Bauhaus. This is a picture of the final years, remembered by some of its most brilliant talents.
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[@TricksterDa]

Even in the later years, there is a beauty and presence that is unmistakeable. She retained that "magic."

[@donttalktomeyoureannoying8736]

She has such a youthful voice for a mature lady ❤️

[@Northatlantic2012]

Louise was magnificent!

[@naturallyaplatinumblonde2772]

I could listen to her FOREVER!!!!❤️

[@karenolson4000]

Louise Brooks had a very pleasant voice.

[@davidharris6510]

Out of all the great actresses who have stood before a movie camera since Louise Brooks, not one of them match her breathtaking screen presence.

[@dxmxo9427]

these interviews with her are so priceless !!!!

[@zoso73]

Incredible how beautiful a 70-year-old woman can look without botox, face-lift or other plastic surgery.

[@tarantellalarouge7632]

yes, I agree, but she was not hired to act anymore !

[@monilaninetynine3811]

She looks great

[@monicaanastasiadis6468]

I wish more people notice these

[@monicaanastasiadis6468]

​@@tarantellalarouge7632it's not always about having an acting career

[@lepetitchat123]

Madonna would disagree 😂

[@wickedprotos1937]

I'll bet talking with her would have been a wonderful experience!!! She was so groundbreaking and a bright spark in her lifetime.

[@CarpetaSeanPeina]

This woman was a magnificent specimen. Besides introducing Naturalistic acting to the film industry in the silent era, decades before Brando, Clift and Dean showed up , she also wrote one book in her 70's were she showed that she was also one hell of a writer too...A libertine, rebel and a great artist all around.

[@GinaToySculptor]

yes yes, just terrific!

[@DeepScreenAnalysis]

+CarpetaSeanPeina - she didn't introduce it.... Garbo did.

[@telephilia]

Methinks you are giving her too much credit. No actor, except for James Dean, has probably gone as far on such a thin filmography. But unlike Dean, who died in an accident, Brooks voluntarily quit the movies. Her few talkies are undistinguished.

[@Garrett1240]

What passes as 'naturalism' can't hold the torch of what Clara Bow did brought to the screen at this time.

[@pommol]

Real natural beauty doesn't age! What a woman....

[@littbitterst2328]

Omg....she just keeps me spellbound. At ANY age...♡♡

[@jlnasseri4390]

Naturally beautiful and wonderful storyteller! She would have been intriguing to listen to about her experiences in the silent movies.

[@jon780249]

On my ideal dinner guest list, she would have been first on the list.

[@littbitterst2328]

Even in these later years....she has me SPELL BOUND!!!! Just transfixed...LOVE HER . .JUST F ING LOVE HER🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@littbitterst2328]

Isnt she AMAZING???? I feel like I'm lost in the wrong era... Can anyone relate???

[@auorda2295]

@@littbitterst2328 Yes but I believe that it is Louise that was born in the wrong time. She played a supporting role in this movie called "love em and leave em". She appears to be a woman from our time stuck in the 20's.

[@FightCollective]

@@littbitterst2328 I share the same birth date with her. I have a great empathetic understanding of her... I get her. What a great energy she still had in her later years. She's 70 in that interview!!! Also to slander her as no good for 'the speakies' is almost criminal!!

[@TheSpiralnotebook]

Have you ever read her book? She can tell a story like Chekov or S. Maugham. Incredible.

[@TheSololobo]

Just to put time in perspective, at the time of this interview Louise Brooks was 70 - considered a relic of early cinema and as of 2019 Meryl Streep is also 70.

[@glenc3249]

So is my ex wife, I'm 58 ;-) ;-) . Louise was still beautiful in this clip.....

[@shaun5944]

Amazing woman. Natural beauty and amazing talent 😍♥️🇬🇧🇺🇸🥰😘♥️

[@mfb3042]

There's something about her and I don't know what it is. I like watching her in the old movies and I like watching her here.

[@edysinsimon8646]

That scene that Louise is talking about? It is indeed in the film I watched! I love you Louise!

[@WV591]

She was amazing beautiful and talented when in her prime and amazing graceful beatiful as an natural aged woman. there will never be another LB.

[@ulrichbolin3926]

Beauty Brooks- önskar att veta mer om Berlin på 20 - talet❤

[@humbertoluiz1975]

Wonderful

[@rafaelmoraes5105]

Great quality! Thanks!

[@malpertuis.]

I'm DESPERATE to see this film.

[@h.calvert3165]

Hope you've seen it by now. WELL worth it! 🏆

[@donttalktomeyoureannoying8736]

@@h.calvert3165 I need to see it now lol

[@roadrunner381]

She went for the gusto in life, and got it!

[@edfeltch]

Another example of the pinnacle that was the 20th c.They don't make 'em like that anymore.Lederer was my fave vampire,too.

[@EmeraldWoodArchives]

She was really lovely right up to the end. Love her.

[@lutonvidsextra9304]

This woman lead life to the full,Beautiful,Creative,naughty,very intelligent,sweet,The best example ever of you only get one life,WTF.......Uber adorable.

[@littbitterst2328]

YES....

[@TheDavejmcknight]

Lovely, lovely woman!

[@stevegarcia9098]

she was way ahead of her time in beauty.

[@stddisclaimer8020]

To speak without constant misuse of the preposition "like," or dropping recurrent "you know"s (when we don't know); to speak without beginning sentences with "So..." -all this makes one painfully aware of the sharp contrast between the likes of Louise and the fatuous pinheads of today.

[@mtnpfi]

How can one watch the whole movie "Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture"?

[@angeldavis3359]

How can we whole film. Have looked everywhere!

[@PokeySoggybottom]

It's here on KZbin. Look up 'Lulu In Berlin'. It's divided into four parts.

[@nosmoking2480]

@@PokeySoggybottom "Lulu in Berlin" is just the longer version of this interview with Brooks. "Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture", the complete documentary, is not on YT. It was made for Canadian TV, but there are some American reviews for it so it may have aired on PBS, too. There are some tape-to-disc copies of it being hawked by grey market sellers floating around.

[@ecips]

Does the unedited interview exist ...anywhere? (I mean before it was edited down for "Lulu In Berlin.)

[@redbike6340]

Maybe I was born 50 years to late ? 🤨

[@kiltedjohn1000]

francis was 100 when he died

[@e.jenima7263]

The Wimer era in berlin was wonderfully decadent and they had so many wonderfull actors and actresses. But we must allso admit that it was a time of horrable human exploitation, hardship, poverty, and depravity. Pretty much Wiemer era Berlin is a very good lesson of what happens when a society becomes over a very short period of time, to Tolerint, to permissive and far to leftish. Had Germany not been sadled with the hevery reperations in the Versailles treaty and had the tradishenal culture and moral values of germanic culture not been so dissregarded after 1918, Hitler may never have come to power at all.

[@thedwightguy]

that's the most twisted logic of an argument I've ever heard in my life: the LEFT AND IT'S PERMISSIVENESS allowed Hitler and what was ALREADY AND still is a FAR RIGHT culture of intolerant people to blossom into a bunch of THUGS??? Even Conservatives wouldn't give the liberal left THAT much credence!! Are you OK, ? Or just don't have any life experience. You sure can't spell.

[@katipohl2431]

Weimar

[@alfredbonnabel7022]

Louise was a very intelligent woman but her own worst enemy. Her career could have been epic.

[@arroulford403]

Nice to see her at this age in something other than bed clothes.

[@jackolantern6692]

That would be a Kansas accent?

[@thedwightguy]

Cherryville, Kansas. Apparently one of her childhood friends ended up being Ethel Merman on the I Love Lucy show!!! Small world.

[@wmfthe5th376]

That's a 'Mid-Atlantic' accent. She had voice coaching to help her lose her Kansas accent.

[@Garrett1240]

@@wmfthe5th376 There's no midatlantic accent here. Her accent is thoroughly American.

[@randymillhouse791]

Love hearing Louise Brooks say the word orgasm.

[@jeffpagan7735]

She was described as a pure unrepentant hedonist

[@iiiiiccccc]

today she would be president. ... thank god times have changed, but we're no there by far.

[@PokeySoggybottom]

Hedonism has unjustly been given a bad name. Far better to be a hedonist than a puritan! Here's a funny quote: “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." - H.L. Mencken

[@messiahgodstar7609]

what a migraine

[@theharpsichordofmozart4258]

She was a basket case.

[@hrxy1]

boring

[@stevemaconi3348]

opinions are like assholes. everybody has one.......