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Photo Gallery Backstage at Babelsberg

Babelsberg film studios just east of Berlin is no stranger to international reknown. Recent years, though, have been far quieter. But that is quickly turning around.
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The film studios at Babelsberg has everything you could possibly want to make a movie including all manner of props...

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...military uniforms from virtually every era...

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...and even school bags like those taken to class by East German pupils.

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One might even run into the occasional robot statue, like this one from the classic science fiction flick "Metropolis."

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The workshop is constantly laboring to produce props for whatever project the studio has landed.

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Nazi uniforms are in abundance...

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... and the Nazi eagle makes the periodic appearance in the studio's prop factory.

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The studio has warehouses full of costumes and props, including these vintage radios to make that movie set look just right.

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Need a bear suit? Or a composer's bust?

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Film sculpture student Anne Rauschenberg hard at work putting the finishing touches on a prop.

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Pick an era and Babelsberg likely has the appropriate lamp.

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Carl Woebcken has been a major part of turning the film studio around from loss maker to market bigwig. Here, he is pictured on "Berliner Strasse."

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A statue of Baron von Münchhausen riding a cannonball.

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