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Rubble Films
Rubble film () was an aesthetic choice for those films made directly after World War II dealing with the impact of the battles in the countries at the center of the war. The style was mostly used by filmmakers in the rebuilding film industries of Eastern Europe, Italy and the former Nazi Germany. The style is characterized by its use of location exteriors among the "rubble" of bombed-down cities to bring the gritty, depressing reality of the lives of the civilian survivors in those early years. Topics of the Rubble film * Problems of returning soldiers * The poverty, suffering and distress in post-war Germany * Stunde Null * Confrontation with the past, particularly with issues of collective guilt * Crime and punishment * War damage and war losses * Life among the rubble * Reconstruction The rubble aesthetic The desolation left as a consequence of the bombing that Germany endured before the end of World War II left the major German cities in shambles. However, unlike other citi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raid (1947 Film)
''Raid'' () is a 1947 German crime film directed by Werner Klingler and starring Paul Bildt, Agathe Poschmann, and Claus Holm. It was made as a cautionary tale about the black market in postwar Berlin. It was made in the Soviet Zone of Germany, Soviet Zone, which would later become East Germany. It was produced by the state-controlled DEFA and shot at the Johannisthal Studios and location filming, on location around Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Hunte and Bruno Monden. The picture sold more than 8,090,000 tickets. Plot The film takes place in Berlin, in the direct aftermath of Germany's defeat in the Second World War. The black market is rife in the ruined city. Chief Inspector Friedrich Naumann (Paul Bildt) organizes a raid on the "Ali Baba Club", the suspected center of a black market gang, but the raid fails due to the gang having an informer in the police ranks. Later, Naumann investigates alone, discovers a secret tunnel in the club, and g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love '47
''Love '47'' () is a 1949 German drama film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Dieter Horn, Hilde Krahl and Sylvia Schwarz. It was part of the cycle of rubble films made in post-war Germany. A young man and a woman about to commit suicide by jumping into a river, recount to each other their experiences of the Second World War and the struggles of the immediate post-war situation. Eventually they convince each other that life is worth living after all. The film was shot at the Göttingen Studios with sets designed by the art director Walter Haag. It was partly based on the play ''Draußen vor der Tür'' by Wolfgang Borchert, with many extra scenes showing the experience of a woman on the home front whereas the original stage work had concentrated only on the perspectives of soldiers coming home.Shandley p. 71–72 The film is particularly notable for its sympathetic treatment of its female protagonist. Cast * Dieter Horn as Jürgen Gehrke * Hilde Krahl as Anna Gehrke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ballad Of Berlin
''The Berliner'' (; also known as ''The Ballad of Berlin'') is a 1948 German comedy film adapted by Günter Neumann from his cabaret, directed by Robert A. Stemmle, and starring Gert Fröbe in his first leading role. It offers a satirical portrayal of life in Berlin in the aftermath of World War II. Plot The film has a framing narrative set in 2048 where viewers are offered the chance to look back at "The Ancients", which introduces the main narrative set in 1948. The film reflects the struggles of Otto Normalverbraucher (Otto Average-Consumer, played by Fröbe), a former German soldier returning to civilian life in Berlin after World War II. After many travails, struggling to find food, shelter, and work, he eventually falls in love and ends up happily with his dream woman. Production The film was adapted by Günter Neumann from his cabaret program ''Schwarzer Jahrmarkt'', was filmed in West Berlin at the time of the Soviet blockade, and shot on location and at the Tempelhof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Original Sin (film)
''The Original Sin'' () is a 1948 German comedy film directed by Helmut Käutner. It was entered into the 1949 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Bettina Moissi as Eva Meier-Eden (Eva) * Bobby Todd as Adam Schmidt (Adam) * Joana Maria Gorvin as Lilly Schmith (Lilith) * Arno Assmann as Dr. Lutz (Lucifer) * Helmut Käutner as Prof. Petri (Petrus) * Irene von Meyendorff * Margarete Haagen * Thea Thiele * Gerda Corbett * Willy Maertens * Nicolas Koline * Carl Voscherau * Bum Krüger * Rudolf Vogel References External links * 1948 films 1948 comedy films German comedy films German satirical films West German films 1940s German-language films German black-and-white films Films directed by Helmut Käutner Films about Adam and Eve 1940s German films {{1940s-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blum Affair
''Blum Affair'' () is a 1948 German drama film directed by Erich Engel and starring Hans Christian Blech, Ernst Waldow and Karin Evans. It is based on a real 1926 case in Magdeburg in which a German Jewish industrialist is tried for murder. The film was produced in the future East Germany and produced by DEFA. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios and Althoff Studios in the Soviet zone. The film's sets were designed by the art director Emil Hasler. Cast * Hans Christian Blech as Karlheinz Gabler * Ernst Waldow as Kriminalkommissar Schwerdtfeger * Paul Bildt as Untersuchungsrichter Konrat * Karin Evans as Sabine Blum * Helmuth Rudolph as Wilschinsky - Regierungspräsident * Alfred Schieske as Kriminalkommissar Otto Bonte * Gisela Trowe as Christina Burman * Kurt Ehrhardt as Dr. Jakob Blum * Gerhard Bienert as Karl Bremer * Herbert Hübner as Landgerichtsdirektor Hecht * Friedrich Maurer as Lawyer Dr. Gerhard Wormser * as Hans Fischer - Gutsvolontär * Arno Paulsen as Wilh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Und Wieder 48
''Und wieder 48'' is an East German East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on 3 October 1990. Until 1989, it was generally vie ... film. It was released in 1948. External links * 1948 films East German films 1940s German-language films Films set in Berlin German black-and-white films Films directed by Gustav von Wangenheim 1940s German films {{1940s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Ohne Titel
''Film Without a Title'' (German: ''Film ohne Titel'') is a 1948 German comedy film directed by Rudolf Jugert and starring Hans Söhnker, Hildegard Knef and Irene von Meyendorff.Shandley p.159 It was made by Bavaria Film at the Emelka Studios in Munich in the American Zone of Occupation. Location shooting took place around Lüchow-Dannenberg in Lower Saxony. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Max Seefelder. Synopsis Actor Willy Fritsch is due to star in a new film. However, the actor, the screenwriter and the film director argue over the content of the production. Although they want to make a comedy, they are unsure how appropriate that is in the wake of the Second World War. As they discuss this, the screenwriter relates the story of two acquaintances of his, the farmer's daughter Christine and the art dealer Martin. Gradually their relationship becomes the subject of the film. Cast * Hans Söhnker as Martin Delius * Hildegard Knef as Christin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morituri (1948 Film)
''Morituri'' is a 1948 German black-and-white drama film produced by Artur Brauner's CCC Film. The film was directed by Eugen York and starred Walter Richter, Winnie Markus and Lotte Koch. It features the onscreen debut of German actor Klaus Kinski as a Dutch concentration camp prisoner. Plot As the end of the Second World War approaches and the Soviet Red Army is advancing, a group of concentration camp inmates is helped to escape by a Polish doctor. They hide in a wood where they meet other fugitives, who have been there for months, constantly in fear of being discovered. Out of fear of the German army patrols, they do not dare to leave the forest, even as the food supplies run low. The Polish doctor blows up a bridge, attracting the German troops' attention to the forest. The soldiers come perilously close to the hidden fugitives, but in the last moment have to retreat before the advance of Red Army units. Cast * Walter Richter as Dr. Leon Bronek * Winnie Markus as Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany Year Zero
''Germany, Year Zero'' () is a 1948 film directed by Roberto Rossellini, and is the final film in Rossellini's unofficial war film trilogy, following ''Rome, Open City'' and ''Paisà''. ''Germany Year Zero'' takes place in Allied-occupied Germany, unlike the others, which take place in German-occupied Rome and during the Allied invasion of Italy, respectively. As in many neorealist films, Rossellini used mainly local, non-professional actors. He filmed on locations in Berlin and intended to convey the reality in Germany the year after its near total destruction in World War II. It contains dramatic images of bombed out Berlin and of the human struggle for survival following the destruction of Nazi Germany. When explaining his ideas about realism in an interview, he said, "realism is nothing other than the artistic form of truth." Plot Twelve-year-old Edmund Köhler lives in devastated, Allied-occupied Berlin with his ailing, bedridden father and his adult siblings, Eva and Kar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Is The Road (film)
''Long Is the Road'' (, ) is a 1948 German drama film directed by Herbert B. Fredersdorf and Marek Goldstein and starring Israel Becker, Bettina Moissi and Berta Litwina. The story examines the Holocaust from the perspective of a Polish Jewish family and a young man who is able to escape while he is transported to a concentration camp. The film was made during the summer of 1947. It was the first German-made film to directly portray the Holocaust ('' Morituri'' was released earlier but made later). It was made with the support of the US Army Information Control Division. It was partly shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich with sets designed by the art director Carl Ludwig Kirmse. History A major aim of the film was to lobby for Jewish survivors still living in Displaced Persons (DP) camps to be allowed to emigrate to the British Mandate of Palestine. It drew a comparison between the plight of the Jewish population and the sufferings of other Europeans who had ended up in DP ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Street Acquaintances (1948 Film)
''Street Acquaintances'' () is a 1948 German drama film directed by Peter Pewas and starring Gisela Trowe, Alice Treff and Ursula Voß. It was made by the Communist-controlled DEFA studios in the Soviet Zone of Germany Released in both the future West and East Germany it was a popular hit and sold 6,469,626 tickets. While it can be regarded as using a style that resembled the Italian neorealist films of the era, it has also been suggested that it returns to the more traditional style of the Weimar era.Moeller p. 23 It portrays the dangers of spreading venereal disease. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and on location around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director Wilhelm Depenau. Cast * Gisela Trowe as Erika * Alice Treff as Annemie * Ursula Voß as Marion * Siegmar Schneider as Walter Helbig * Harry Hindemith as Herbert Petzoldt * Hans Klering as Peter * Ursula Friese as Else * Arno Paulsen as Elses Freund * Gertrud Boll as Olly Gebauer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
