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Top 10 Exhibitions in the Filmmuseum

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1. Marlene Dietrich

This exhibition of the film star’s estate includes costumes, touring luggage, photographs, letters and notes, posters and film clips.
2. Metropolis

This film, directed by Fritz Lang in 1927, has an alarming vision of a future world as its subject. Models and props from the film are on display.
3. Caligari

The best known German film of the 1920s, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920), was a masterpiece of Expressionist filmmaking by Robert Wiene.
4. Leni Riefenstahl

This exhibition reveals the technical tricks used in the Nazi propaganda film Olympia , made by Leni Riefenstahl in 1936–8.
5. Film and National Socialism

This exhibition features documents relating to the propaganda uses of film, everyday cinema and the industry’s victims: some film stars allowed themselves to be used by the Nazis, others refused to cooperate. The life and work of the actor Kurt Gerron, who was persecuted and murdered, is documented as an exemplary case.
6. Post-War Cinema

The story of films and filmmaking in East and West Germany, with props and costumes of popular stars of post-war German cinema such as Hanna Schygulla, Romy Schneider, Heinz Rühmann and Mario Adorf.
7. Artificial Worlds

The tricks employed by special effects studios, ranging from the first effects of the 1930s to computer animation.
8. Transatlantic

This exhibition of documents, letters, keepsakes and souvenirs retraces the careers of German film stars in Hollywood.
9. Pioneers and Divas

The infant days of cinema are featured here – as well as stars of the silent era such as Henny Porten and Asta Nielsen.
10. Exile

Documents relate the difficulties encountered by German filmmakers when making a new start in the USA in 1933–45.