Marriage in the Shadows (1947)

Original title

Ehe im Schatten

Directed by

Kurt Maetzig

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

12

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A German film from 1947 that tells a story about the persecution of Jewish people during World War II. It focuses on a married couple forced to confront the moral horrors of the Nazi era.

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What happens

Marriage in the Shadows (German: Ehe im Schatten) is 1947 German melodrama film directed by Kurt Maetzig and starring Paul Klinger, Ilse Steppat and Alfred Balthoff. It was produced in the Soviet zone in what later became East Germany and was released by DEFA. The film was described as an "attempt to confront the German people about the morals of the past", being the first film to confront the people about the persecution of the Jews and the atrocities conducted during World War II. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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