Murderers Among Us (1946)

Original title

Die Mörder sind unter uns

Directed by

Wolfgang Staudte

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

6

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 72 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A German surgeon returns from a prisoner of war camp and struggles to rebuild her life in the rubble of Berlin. She shares her apartment with a traumatized former soldier who is haunted by his wartime commander. The soldier must decide whether to confront the now prosperous businessman who gave a brutal order.

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What happens

Die Mörder sind unter uns, a German film known in English as Murderers Among Us in the United States or The Murderers Are Among Us in the United Kingdom was one of the first post-World War II German films and the first Trümmerfilm. It was produced in 1945/46 in the Althoff Studios in Babelsberg and the Jofa-Ateliers in Johannisthal. The film was written and directed by Wolfgang Staudte. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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