After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apartment in bombed out Berlin. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.
Cinematography
Actual bombed Berlin ruins—no sets, just apocalyptic reality.
Acting
Hildegard Knef's debut: steel and tenderness in rubble.
Direction
Staudte filmed what others wanted to forget.
Director
Wolfgang Staudte
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
DEFA made this in the Soviet zone before the Berlin Wall existed; it was Germany confronting itself while still occupied.
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