“ TWENTY FOUR HOURS IN BERLIN ” 1970s BERLIN, GERMANY COLD WAR ERA DOCUMENTARY TRAVELOGUE XD86675

[@MarteoN]

Thank you for this surprise. I grew up im Berlin and the narrator of the film was a friend of my family.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Thanks that's really great @MarteoN -- visited Berlin two years ago it was wonderful.

[@DSGNflorian]

The footage is most likely from spring/summer of 1964. At 8:30 you see the modern tower of the Gedächtniskirche (Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church) which appears completed (that was by 1963) and a few seconds later the camera captures the Europacenter under construction, which opened in 1965. The newest car I spot is a 1964 Plymouth Fury 4 door sedan at 5:55, sticking out its copious derrière in a parking lot full of much shorter 1950s and early-60s German cars.

[@Stefan-o8e]

What a nice Video about my hometown. I use the part of the Citymotorway, shown at about min 25:00 every day on my way to Work. This Film must been made between 1962, because the wall was beginning to build in 1961 but first IT was just a fence. And 1967, because in this year the last streetcars we're taken out of service.

[@bensander909]

I concur, Martin Luther King is referenced here and his speech in Berlin was in 1964.

[@matovicmmilan]

Sorry I didn't understand what happened with the Berlin streetcars? Were these replaced with something else or?

[@Stefan-o8e]

@@matovicmmilan yes, by Subway and bus services. But only in West-Berlin, in east Berlin they remained in service until now.

[@fredfrickler2120]

Vielen Dank für diesen Film aus meiner Heimatstadt und herzliche Grüße aus Berlin im Jahr 2025....

[@AliasAlien77]

Great, thank you 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@Bellasie1]

It looks and sounds more like the early 60s the whole time, and @8'36 one can see the Europa Center under construction, which was inaugurated in 1965! But great footage anyway!

[@SaschaStradtmann]

Thank you for this wonderful film, which shows Berlin in a benevolent light and emphasizes the picturesque sides of the city.

[@imransharif443]

Very nice good old video beautiful

[@joedi6339]

I was born and grew up in Berlin (West). 1970 I was 4 years old. Sadly today the reunited Berlin is a totally different town, I miss the town of my childhood.

[@Sam_Eassa]

Judging by the car models and how the people are dressed as well as the hair styles, I would say this was filmed in the early 1960s.

[@sharkinstx]

The actual time is September 13-14, 1964. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke at the opening of Berlin’s Philharmonic Hall at 11:00am on Sunday, September 13th. His visit to Berlin lasted from the afternoon of Saturday the 12th through the morning of Monday the 14th, when he flew to Munich.

[@xaverlustig3581]

Small correction, the film is from the 1960s. It must have been filmed between the construction of the wall 1961 and the end of Willy Brandt's departure as mayor 1966.

[@markroberts9577]

This was fantastic educational video. Gives my generation dramatic proof that people will always choose freedom VS communism

[@rapman5791]

“Ich bin ein Berliner”

[@michaelgilbert3713]

17:52 Beethoven Ludwig von 🎻 did he play violin my answer Ich weiss nicht + probably ©

[@TomasTaraba-lp3lo]

Rád bych podotknul že tento dokumentární film o západním Berlíně není z roku 1970 ale někdy z poloviny šedesátých let. Kdy ještě budoucí spolkový kancléř Willy Brandt byl starostou západního Berlína 😮

[@fredthemagnificent]

does anyone know what the mosaic factory was called (19:30), if this video was made in the 70's so it can’t be 'Puhl & Wagner' as they went out of business in 69. Any suggestions? Was this video made in the 60's and not the 70's?

[@hp70driver5]

The film was made exactly in 1964. Martin Luther King speech Jazz Festival 1964 and you see it on the poster at minute 28.35 Golden Bear Film Festival.

[@thomasehret1041]

@hp70driver5 not sure that al the scenes are from 1964 as in the end of the scene with the postal vehicles there is a red beetle on the roadside with standing lights witch was from 68 on.

[@hp70driver5]

@@thomasehret1041 Kotflügelblinker ab Baujahr 1960

[@michaelgilbert3713]

Was bedeutet warum bei Heimat wir gehen und lieben mit mein Mutter mein Tochter und besser zwei Madchen 😊

[@trendsetter163]

This ist not 1970s, it's 1960s West-Berlin..

[@DanielParedes-m2r]

sorry Germany, califocrnia!

[@DKJB3434]

A wonderful film document! What do you think is the exact year the film was made?

[@hp70driver5]

The film was made exactly in 1964. Martin Luther King speech Jazz Festival 1964 and you see it on the poster at minute 28.35 Golden Bear Film Festival.

[@DKJB3434]

​@hp70driver5 you're right! Earlier you can also see the Europa Center was build. It opened the gates one year later.