TODAY IN BERLIN: ASPHALT AND DIAMONDS
March 11 in Berlin
Exactly 96 years ago today, on March 11, 1929, one of the very last German silent films and one of the last popular films ever produced in the Weimar Republic went down, “Asphalt” had its premiere at UFA-Palast am Zoo in Berlin. And was immediately banned for impressionable youths. Too hot to handle, as one could say today.