In the organizer's words:

A film journey by Hermann Rheindorf.

This film brings the sunken city of the pre-war era back to life. A film experience in outstanding picture quality and for the first time elaborately colored and in color. It includes a large number of new discoveries that have never been seen in public before.

These are the impressive fruits of over 20 years of research, which the Cologne journalist Hermann Rheindorf has collected from all over the world and presented to us here: We mingle with the people at the cathedral in the days of Kaiser Wilhelm and stroll with them along the Hohe Strasse. We cheer Prince Carnival at Neumarkt, visit Cologne's first sports ground and enjoy a more than 100-year-old camera ride along one of the oldest streets in Cologne. Our visit to the original old town with its markets and alleyways, the terrain of musicians and Cologne's Pänz, is more extensive than ever. A stroll around Cologne's Romanesque churches in their original state is priceless, as is a tour of the then still new rings, with many views that are completely unknown today.

The selection of film footage from all corners of the city is overwhelming. And yet old Cologne is far from a perfect world. Large sections of the population are destitute. The consequences of the First World War and the crises of the Weimar era are omnipresent. This makes the speed at which Cologne is transforming into a modern metropolis in these years all the more astonishing.

And Christian Brückner, one of the most renowned narrators of our time, tells the often astonishing stories behind the oldest moving images from Cologne.

90 minutes running time

Price information:

5,79 €