The Empty Center
1998, German. Directed by Hito Steyerl.
Steyerl’s film traces the impact of an influx of transnational companies on the city dwellers of Berlin in post-reunification Germany. The effect of the changing economy and politics on the city and its inhabitants is echoed through their physical relocation to its outer edges. In 1990, squatters proclaim a socialist republic on the death strip. Eight years later, the new headquarters of Mercedes Benz are built in the same location. The film makes use of slow super-impositions to uncover a journey across changing architectural and cultural boundaries. "The Empty Centre" tries to give a voice and a history to those who continue to be marginalised by the simultaneous dismantling and reconstruction of the borders which they are trying to cross.
- Runtime
- 1h 2m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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- Released
- 1 January 1998
- Original title
- Die Leere Mitte
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The Empty Center isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1998. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Empty Center?
The Empty Center (1998) was directed by Hito Steyerl and stars Dong Yang, Huan Zhu.