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Murderers Among Us (1946) was a Foreign Films Film directed by Wolfgang Staudte .

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Murderers Among Us (1946)

By Beatrice on Jan 20, 2015 From Flickers in Time

Murderers Among Us?(“Die M?rder sind unter uns” Directed by Wolfgang Staudte Written by Wolfgang Staudte 1946/Germany Deutsche Film First viewing/Netflix rental This is a good, but not great, exploration of how various Berliners cope with their wartime experiences in the rubble of the... Read full article


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Shortly before the premiere, it was decided that leading actor Ernst 'Wilhelm Borchert' was not to be mentioned on posters and in the credits, since he had forged his forms of denazification. He had omitted that he had been a member of the NSDAP since 1933, but it later turned out his connection to the party was without further consequences.
Staudte was originally planning on calling the movie "Der Mann, den ich töten werde" (The man who I will kill), and it was supposed to end with Dr. Mertens killing Brueckner. The final scene was modified due to concerns of the soviet granter of license. There were also concerns that Germans, aware of guilty former-Nazis in their own community, would follow the example of the movie's hero and enact their own vigilante justice.
It was the first German movie after World War II
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