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The Murderers Are Among Us is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Wolfgang Staudte released in USA on 16 august 1948 with Hildegard Knef
The Murderers Are Among Us (1946)
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Add to a movie listDie 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 and 1946 in the Althoff-Atelier in Babelsberg and in Jofa-Ateliers in Johannisthal. It was written and directed by Wolfgang Staudte.
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Berlin in 1945 after Germany's defeat in the war. The former military surgeon Dr. Hans Mertens (Ernst Wilhelm Borchert) returns home from the battlefield to find his home destroyed. He suffers from the terrible memories of the war and becomes an alcoholic. A photographer and Nazi concentration camp survivor, Susanne Wallner (Hildegard Knef), finds him living in her apartment as she returns home and they become roommates and even friends. Eventually, Mertens meets his former captain Ferdinand Brückner (Arno Paulsen), who had been responsible for the shooting of a hundred civilians on Christmas Eve of 1942 in a Polish village on the Eastern Front. He is now a successful businessman, producing pots out of old Stahlhelme, the German military steel helmet. On Christmas Eve, Mertens plans to kill him, but Wallner stops him at the last minute. They decide to have Brückner put on trial then, and the two start a new life together.Actors
Hildegard Knef
(Susanne Wallner)
Erna Sellmer
(Frau Brückner)
Wilhelm Borchert
(Dr. Hans Mertens)
Arno Paulsen
(Hauptmann Ferdinand Brückner)
Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur
(Arzt)
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