Murderers Among Us

Die 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. Berlin in 1945 after Germany's defeat in the war. The former military surgeon Dr. Hans Mertens 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 , finds him living in her apartment as she returns home and they soon become friends and roommates. Eventually, Mertens meets his former captain Ferdinand Brückner , who had been responsible for the shooting of 36 men, 54 women, and 31 children 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.
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