Murderers Among Us (1946)

Berlin, 1945, a city in ruins. Susanne Wallner returns from a concentration camp to her old apartment, now occupied by Dr. Mertens, a former surgeon distraught by his war experience in Poland. Featuring Hildegard Knef in her international breakthrough role, Murderers Among Us was Germany’s very first postwar film.

Germany, 1946, 90 min

Directed by Wolfgang Staudte
With Hildegard Knef, Ernst Wilhelm Borchert, Arno Paulsen

Screened as part of the film series Enemy Territory – Fritz Bauer & Postwar Germany