My Rubble Film Dozen (Trümmerfilme)
by Max_in_Vienna | created - 13 May 2019 | updated - 13 May 2019 | PublicFilms made directly after World War II dealing with the impact of the battles in the countries at the centre of the war. The style was mostly used by film-makers 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.
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1. Lang ist der Weg (1948)
77 min | Drama, War
Written by Israel Becker, this is the first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp in U.S.-occupied Germany, ... See full summary »
Directors: Herbert B. Fredersdorf, Marek Goldstein | Stars: Israel Becker, Bettina Moissi, Berta Litwina, Jakob Fischer
Votes: 54
2. The Ballad of Berlin (1948)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Musical
After he has luckily survived the war, Otto tries to build up his new life in the remains of Berlin.
Director: Robert A. Stemmle | Stars: Gert Fröbe, Tatjana Sais, Ute Sielisch, Aribert Wäscher
Votes: 227
3. Murderers Among Us (1946)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during World War II.
Director: Wolfgang Staudte | Stars: Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer, Hilde Adolphi
Votes: 2,547
4. Marriage in the Shadows (1947)
105 min | Drama
In Nazi Germany actor Hans refuses to divorce his Jewish wife Elisabeth. He is threatened to be drafted and sent to the front while she will be deported to a concentration camp. Desperate, Hans decides that suicide is their only way out.
Director: Kurt Maetzig | Stars: Paul Klinger, Ilse Steppat, Alfred Balthoff, Claus Holm
Votes: 196
5. Irgendwo in Berlin (1946)
77 min | Drama
After WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for Gustav, it helps pass the time, as he longs ... See full summary »
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Charles Brauer, Harry Hindemith, Hedda Sarnow, Fritz Rasp
Votes: 163
6. And the Heaven Above us (1947)
84 min | Drama
Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Hans Albers, Paul Edwin Roth, Lotte Koch, Annemarie Hase
Votes: 72
7. Morituri (1948)
88 min | Drama, War
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Eugen York | Stars: Lotte Koch, Hilde Körber, Winnie Markus, Catja Görna
Votes: 98
8. The Lost Man (1951)
98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.
Director: Peter Lorre | Stars: Peter Lorre, Karl John, Helmuth Rudolph, Johanna Hofer
Votes: 1,160
9. Zwischen gestern und morgen (1947)
107 min | Drama, Romance, War
A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to cope with the tragic consequences of the war and their own actions.
Director: Harald Braun | Stars: Hildegard Knef, Winnie Markus, Sybille Schmitz, Willy Birgel
Votes: 200
10. Der Ruf (1949)
100 min | Drama
A Jewish professor returns to Germany following World War II. He hopes to help rebuild a new, free Germany, but he must confront the antisemitism of his colleagues and students.
Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Fritz Kortner, Johanna Hofer, Rosemary Murphy, Lina Carstens
Votes: 60
11. Seven Journeys (1947)
111 min | Drama, War
A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich in Nazi Germany.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Gert Schäfer, Erich Schellow, Winnie Markus, Werner Hinz
Votes: 354
12. Film Without a Name (1948)
79 min | Comedy, Romance
A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer
Director: Rudolf Jugert | Stars: Hans Söhnker, Hildegard Knef, Irene von Meyendorff, Erich Ponto
Votes: 220
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