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80 Jahre Kriegsende: "Die Mörder sind unter uns"
In the organizer's words:
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, we are showing the first German post-war film with Hildegard Knef, shot in the ruins of Berlin:
THE MURDERERS ARE AMONG US
DEU 1946. D: Wolfgang Staudte. D: Hildegard Knef, Ernst Wilhelm Borchert, Erna Sellmer, Arno Paulsen. 85 min. FSK: 6
Berlin 1945: Susanne Wallner, a young photographer, returns from the concentration camp, but her apartment is occupied. Mertens, a surgeon who has recently returned from the war, has taken up residence here and is trying to suppress his terrible memories with excessive alcohol consumption. The two come to an arrangement and, with Susanne's help, Mertens slowly regains his composure. Then he meets his former captain Brückner, now a slick businessman with a profitable business idea: he makes new saucepans from old steel helmets. Merten's conscience rebels, and on Christmas Eve 1945 he wants atonement for a massacre of women, children and men ordered by Brückner three years earlier...
The film was shot from March 1946 onwards in the ruins of Berlin in expressive images and deals directly with everyday life and the questions that drove people: about guilt and morality, about the crimes of the war and the responsibility afterwards. Licensed by the Soviet liberators of Berlin, it is the first German post-war film and the first production of Defa, which was founded two months after the beginning of the war.
Berlin 1945: Susanne Wallner, a young photographer, returns from the concentration camp, but her apartment is occupied. Mertens, a surgeon who has recently returned from the war, has taken up residence here and is trying to suppress his terrible memories with excessive alcohol consumption. The two come to an arrangement and, with Susanne's help, Mertens slowly regains his composure. Then he meets his former captain Brückner, now a slick businessman with a profitable business idea: he makes new saucepans from old steel helmets. Merten's conscience rebels, and on Christmas Eve 1945 he wants atonement for a massacre of women, children and men ordered by Brückner three years earlier...
The film was shot from March 1946 onwards in the ruins of Berlin in expressive images and deals directly with everyday life and the questions that drove people: about guilt and morality, about the crimes of the war and the responsibility afterwards. Licensed by the Soviet liberators of Berlin, it is the first German post-war film and the first production of Defa, which was founded two months after the beginning of the war.
Introduction: Dr. Peter Bär
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Price information:
10 € / 7 € reduced / 6 € members Cinema Quadrat e.V.
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