The Murderers Are Among Us (1946) on Netflix
NR19461h 25mDramaRomanceThriller
In 1945 Berlin, Susanne Wallner returns from a concentration camp to her apartment and finds former military surgeon Hans Mertens living there. Haunted by flashbacks of the war, he drinks.
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Plot summary
Dr. Hans Mertens, a former military surgeon, is drinking his way through postwar Berlin when Susanne Wallner, an artist who survived a concentration camp, arrives at her old apartment and finds him living in it. He is haunted by flashbacks of the war, and the sight of people in pain keeps him from practicing medicine. The two share the flat unwillingly at first and then become friends. When Mertens tries for a job at a hospital, a woman's scream sets off his memories and leaves him unable to work. A letter in the apartment, addressed to a Mrs. Brückner, draws Susanne's questions, and she presses Mertens about who wrote it.
Cast
- Robert Forschas Gustav Mondschein
- Albert Johannesas Bartholomäus Timm
- Ursula Kriegas Carola Schulz
- Wolfgang Dohnbergas Fritz Knochenhauer
- Michael Güntheras Herbert Brückner
- Christian Blackwoodas Otto Brückner
- Hilde Adolphias Daisy
- Marlise Ludwigas Sonja
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Murderers Are Among Us (1946)
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Staudte was turned down by the British, French and American authorities, who considered the film too political; only the Soviets approved the script, and only after a change to the planned ending, in which Mertens killed Brückner, to one of denunciation and prosecution.- The film's leading male player, Ernst Wilhelm Borchert, was removed from advertisements for the movie after being accused and arrested for lying on denazification paperwork; a 1947 article in the Neue Zeit reported he had been exonerated by the Denazification Commission for Artists.
