Die Mörder sind unter uns

Deutschland (Ost) 1946 Spielfilm

The Murderers Are Among Us

Berlin 1945. Susanne Wallner, a young photographer, returns home from the concentration camp, but her flat is occupied. The surgeon Mertens, who recently returned from the war, is trying to suppress his terrible memories through excessive drinking. They come to an arrangement and, with Susanne′s help, Dr. Mertens slowly returns to his former self. Then he meets his former captain Bruckner, now a slippery businessman who couldn′t care less whether he makes cooking pots out of steel helmets or vice versa.

Mertens′ conscience rebels, and on Christmas Eve 1945, he wants to demand atonement for a massacre of men, women and children which had been ordered three years previously by Bruckner. At the last moment, Susanne is able to convince him that the retaliation of such guilt is not a private affair and that the war criminal should be brought before a court.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

 

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Shoot

    • 16.03.1946 - August 1946: Studioaufnahmen: Althoff-Atelier, Babelsberg; Atelier Berlin-Johannisthal; Berlin (Stettiner Bahnhof, Andreasplatz, Kleine Andreasstraße, Petri-Kirche)
Duration:
2475 m, 91 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
s/w, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

Zensur (DE): 15.10.1946, ab 14 Jahren [Alliierte Militärzensur]

Screening:

Uraufführung (D2): 15.10.1946, Berlin, Deutsche Staatsoper;
Erstaufführung (D1): 10.04.1947, Baden-Baden;
TV-Erstsendung (DD): 10.11.1955, DFF;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 18.12.1971, ARD

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (D2) Die Mörder sind unter uns
  • Arbeitstitel Der Mann, den ich töten werde
  • Weiterer Titel (eng) The Murderers Are Among Us
  • Arbeitstitel (DE) Der Mann, den ich erschiessen werde

Versions

Original

Duration:
2475 m, 91 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
s/w, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

Zensur (DE): 15.10.1946, ab 14 Jahren [Alliierte Militärzensur]

Screening:

Uraufführung (D2): 15.10.1946, Berlin, Deutsche Staatsoper;
Erstaufführung (D1): 10.04.1947, Baden-Baden;
TV-Erstsendung (DD): 10.11.1955, DFF;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 18.12.1971, ARD

Prüffassung

Duration:
2300 m, 84 min
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 15.07.1959, 20097 [3. FSK-Prüfung]

Duration:
2400 m, 88 min
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 12.01.1959, B 247 [2. FSK-Prüfung];
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 06.07.1954, B 247, ab 16 Jahre / nicht feiertagsfrei;
Zensur (DE): Juni 1948 [Alliierte Militärzensur];
Zensur (DE): März 1947 [Französische Militärzensur]