Violet of Potsdam Square

Name: Das Veilchen vom Potsdamer Platz
Genre: Drama
Released: 1939-04-07
Duration: 1 h 29 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Rotraut Richter, Paul W. Krüger, Margarete Kupfer

Original title: Das Veilchen vom Potsdamer Platz

1936
1h 29m

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6.6/10

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Hans Richter and Rotraut Richter in Violet of Potsdam Square (1936)

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In a poor Berlin neighborhood, a horse used in the WWI cavalry is threatened with slaughter so two sinister types can make some money .But a flower seller, her grandfather, and some other ni... Read allIn a poor Berlin neighborhood, a horse used in the WWI cavalry is threatened with slaughter so two sinister types can make some money .But a flower seller, her grandfather, and some other nice people try to save the honorable steed.In a poor Berlin neighborhood, a horse used in the WWI cavalry is threatened with slaughter so two sinister types can make some money .But a flower seller, her grandfather, and some other nice people try to save the honorable steed.

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awful, but interesting

"Das Veilchen" can be seen as a Stadtheimatfilm, where the city of Berlin is treated as any rural scene of the German genre "Heimatfilm". Home is represented as a small part of Berlin, one steps down to its ground and never gets out of it again. It's a cultural backwater, a cruel mixture of preussian dreams and ideas of the picturesque life of the poor. Main character is, beside the flower-seller Mariechen Bindedraht, an old horse. Its name is "Gravelotte" a dialectal version of a battlefield of World War One, and we get to know more about its glory past... Now the horse is threatened by the slaughter's knife, but thanks to Mariechen and her grandfather and all the other nice people of Berlin Gravelotte gets a medal and the chance to spend the rest of its days as a Horse of honour with special treatment in the army.