The original Tresor was in many ways the quintessential Berlin club: located in an unrenovated vault beneath a bombed out department store, it opened its doors amidst the general confusion and ecstasy that swept across the city when the wall fell. Its low ceilings, industrial decor and generally unhinged atmosphere created an unprecedented platform not only for techno in Berlin, but also for the scene taking shape across the Atlantic in Detroit.
Direction
Künzel captures raw 90s energy without nostalgia gloss.
Sound
The kick drum IS a character. Mix is punishing perfection.
Production
Archive footage from actual vault raves feels illegally intimate.
Director
Tilmann Künzel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tresor's location in Potsdamer Platz — once no-man's-land, now Disney-fied — makes the documentary unintentionally elegiac. The club was literally built on Cold War wounds.
The 'Vault' (Saal) was the former safe deposit room of Wertheim department store, bombed in WWII. Dancers partied surrounded by thousands of rusted safe deposit boxes.
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