80 Jahre Kriegsende: "Irgendwo in Berlin"

To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, a very early post-war production, filmed in the ruins of Berlin:

SOMEWHERE IN BERLIN

DEU 1946. D: Gerhard Lamprecht. D: Charles Brauer, Hans Trinkhaus, Harry Hindemith, Hedda Sarnow, Hans Leibelt, Paul Bildt, Fritz Rasp. 85 min. FSK: 6
Berlin, shortly after the end of the war: The city lies in rubble and ashes. For children, the ruins are a great adventure playground. They play tag, hide and seek - and play war with fireworks. Gustav and Willi, both eleven years old, are friends - with Willi helping the unscrupulous pusher Birke with his business, and Gustav waiting for his father to return. But his father is a mental wreck after the war and imprisonment and becomes the laughing stock of the neighbors and the children. Willi, however, wants to help Gustav and his family and steals food from Birke's black market stocks...
Gerhard Lamprecht - in the 1920s a director of the socially deprived (DIE VERRUFENEN), who celebrated an international success with EMIL UND DIE DETEKTIVE (1931) - shows the post-war rubble as the living environment of children in ruins. The film was the third Defa production and the film debut of the then eleven-year-old Charles Brauer, then still using his birth name Knetschke.

Introduction: Erich Siebert