Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis | German: Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt |1927| Walter Ruttmann

Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis or Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (German: Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt) is a 1927 German silent film directed by Walter Ruttmann, co-written by Carl Mayer and Karl Freund. Composer Edmund Meisel was commissioned to write an orchestral score for its original release. All of the acts is the theme of the train and streetcar. Much of the motion in the film, and many of the scene transitions, are built around the motion of trains and streetcars. Events are arranged to simulate the passage of a single day, starting at the earliest morning and ends in the deepest night. Shots and scenes are cut together based on relationships of image, motion, point of view, and thematic content.