Murderers Among Us (Die Mörder sind unter uns)

Tue Sep 24, 2013

21:00

Location

Goethe-Institut Zypern
21 Markou Drakou
Nicosia, Nicosia 1102

Description

Susanne Wallner returns to the ruins of Berlin from a Concentration Camp after WW2 to discover that someone else lives in her apartment: Dr. Hans Mertens, the war made him depressive and he drinks a lot of alcohol. Susanne asks him to go but he doesn't want to, so they share Susanne's apartment and even discover their sympathy and then their love for each other. That encourages him a little, of course. But then he hears that Ferdinand Brückner is still alive and also lives in Berlin. Brückner was his Captain during WW2, he gave the order to kill more than 100 innocent people, many children and women among them, on Christmas 1942 in Poland.

Cast:
Hildegard Knef (Susanne Wallner)
Wilhelm Borchert (Dr. Hans Mertens)
Erna Sellmer (Elise Brueckner)
Arno Paulsen (Ferdinand Brueckner)

Director: Wolfgang Staudte
Writer: Wolfgang Staudte
Runtime: 85 min
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Language: German
Subtitles: English
Production Year: 1946

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