Last Exit Alexanderplatz

Germany, Denmark | 2015 | 60 Minutes

Documentation about the different designs and ideas for the post-reunification development of Alexanderplatz in the German capital.

Last Exit Alexanderplatz is a film about the ongoing, but politically disputed and so far unsuccessful attempt to transform the former East-German Alexanderplatz into a high-end, Manhattan-like business district.

Through interviews with the architects and politicians, who were involved in the competition held for the square in 1993, the film highlights the dogmatism and insensitivity that characterized much of planning in post-reunification Berlin. But it also depicts a square, which despite the failures and missed opportunities of the 1990s seems to have regained its foothold in the city.

Credits

Production companies: Post Behrens Produktion and TIME PRINTS
Partners & Funding: Danish Arts Foundation, Faculties of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Cees van Oord, Nanne de Ru, Morgan Rusler Adreas Diepeveen, Katharina Hagg, Manuel Krüger, Henrik Moltke, Tarja Nurmi, Hendrik Jan de Ru, Beate Rosskopf, Martin Glaz Serup, Christine Strandmose Toft, Agnes Wazola